Regular English 4 or AP Lit next year?

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<p>As the title suggests, I don't know whether I should take regular or AP English next year as a senior. I'm going for some pretty high-up colleges (my matches right now are Colby, Connecticut, Bucknell, and Rochester but I'm also looking at some better ones) so I feel like I have to take this class at the AP level.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I'm absolutely horrible with literature. I'm great at writing--I either got a 4 or 5 on the AP Lang exam, and an easy A in the class--but I can't read to save my life. I got mid-80s in both freshman and sophomore honors English which were very literature-intensive. I will admit that my effort in both classes was not so great, so I don't really know what I'm capable of.</p>

<p>I guess what I'm trying to ask is if it's possible for me to be really good at language and horrible at literature or if my skills in language should allow me to do just fine in AP Lit.</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Depends on your AP lit teacher really. </p>

<p>My school’s AP Lit teacher is hell. She assigns many readings which are older and harder to understand. </p>

<p>Some AP lit teaches are assigning more recent novels newer ones (the road, the things they carried etc.) and are very nice with their readings.</p>

<p>Find out for yourself… and tbh wont english 4 be the same? Book test book test book test? </p>

<p>if you got a 4-5 on AP lang then you should do fine for the reading of AP lit</p>

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<p>That’s actually what I was thinking–regular English won’t be a big difference because reading is reading no matter how “advanced” the class is.</p>

<p>I hear that one teacher is really hard and the other isn’t quite as bad. Either way, I’m hoping to get it second semester so it doesn’t show up on my transcript until I’m already accepted to college.</p>

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<p>They ask for senior year courses anyway? ^^</p>

<p>and if regular classes are anything like my school they are filled with the rejects? </p>

<p>or, is it AP or regulars? no honors courses? </p>

<p>I would want to take the more intellectually challenging class anyway… you are going off to college.</p>

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<p>They ask for senior year courses, but if I made the switch to regular it would be in late January before the semester starts probably. I don’t know if that makes a big difference or not. </p>

<p>And yeah, for English, pretty much everyone serious takes AP/honors. Not like that with other subjects here, but it is with English.</p>

<p>With junior and senior English, it is only AP or regular.</p>

<p>It’s not a matter of an intellectual challenge for me. I’m worried that it could wreck my GPA with a C or perhaps even worse.</p>