<p>Hi everyone. Students are bout to choose classes for next year and I will be a rising Sr. My GPA is about a 3.3 now, but I'm confidant that with 110% effort next year... I can bring it upto about a 3.5. Anyhow... I was wondering how hard you guys' experience was for AP micro/macro economics. For our school both are combined and not separate. Would you recommend me taking it? I was initially going to take AP environmental sci, then changed my mind to Accounting, and then now I'm thinking about this. Here's my list SO far (subject to change...)</p>
<p>AP Psychology
AP Stat
Japanese2
AP Gov't
AP AB Calculous
English 12
APES/Accounting/Micro-Macro/ or something else.</p>
<p>This is going to be the most important year of MY life. Any help is highly appreciated, thanks!</p>
<p>AP Economics (both micro and macro) are a joke.</p>
<p>Essentially, if you can interpret graphs and read a textbook, you're in good shape.</p>
<p>My class is probably run differently from how it's run in your school, but this is how I'm learning all the material and I don't find it challenging at all.</p>
<p>I took AP Micro/macro econ. last year, and I found it pretty interesting. I would recommend anyone going into politics/business related fields to take that class. My class really wasn't too hard, but that honestly depends on your teacher and what curriculum he/she gives.</p>
<p>thanks guys! anymore opinions? Do you think that maybe the colleges will "look down" upon me for taking the so called easy APs - Psychology, Stat, Micro/Mac?</p>
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<p>bump... cmon peeps</p>
<p>dont you have to take economics to graduate? at my school you do. colleges dont take "points" away from your app if you take those AP lite courses, however, if they are comparing you vs. a student who is taking more "difficult" APs, then they will favor that kid over you. it won't hurt you, but i cant help you if you are applying to top tier schools.</p>
<p>would u consider ap calc bc an "ap lite course" if not than ap micro/macro are most definetly not. ap calc bc, 43.5% of kids get 5's, that in my opinion is ridiculous, half the kids in my class last year had no idea what was going on, they all got 5's. AP micro/macro, have a distribution of 16.3% and 14.1% for grades of 5 respectively. these are not "harder" tests but in my opinion they are harder to get a 5 on. imho there isnt an AP lite course amongst the bunch...
by the by all stats are taken from collegeboard's site</p>
<p>Some of the schools I'm looking at are Syracuse U, Virginia tech, University of Maryland CP, and Boston U. And by the way I said AB not BC calc</p>
<p>my post was mostly in ref. to wsw talking bout "ap lite courses"</p>
<p>bc isnt a "lite" course, its one of the harder ones. the reason why people get 5s is that most people in calc bc or physics c is that they know what theyre talkin about. As far as your schedule, it looks pretty good, not too easy, but not risky either. my advice on picking a senior schedule is to take classes that look good, but that you can also get good/ok grades in.</p>
<p>Thanks all for the responses. I'm pretty much set, but not 100% sure about AP Micro/Macro ... you guys think I should take it?</p>