My student chose not to take AP English and attends a top LAC. She does extremely well in English classes and writes “for fun”. She chose to instead take APs that she thought would be interesting instead of drudge work. We found that many schools she was looking at didn’t take AP English as a direct replacement for Freshman English anyway, instead every student has to take a several classes that are also considered “writing intensive”. Don’t take AP English just because you think it is expected.