Self study for AP Psychology Junior or Senior year?

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I’m a junior in high school. As of right now, I’m number 2 in my class, member of several honor societies, internship experience last summer at a hospital. I’m in only 3 AP classes and don’t think it’s enough. I’m looking for a way to polish up my schedule a little bit. I want to take AP Psych next year, but it may or may not fit in my schedule. So I’m considering self-studying for AP Psych…should I do it this year or senior year? I’m confident I will do well on the AP exam with self-studying, but I have to make sure that the timing is right. This is my dilemma:

  1. If I self-studied this year and got a 5, I could mention it in my college essay, since self-studying doesn’t show up on transcripts. But right now I’m doing and ACT prep and it’s quite a lot of work, I don’t want to take away time from prepping.
  2. If I did it my senior year, I wouldn’t have to worry about SAT and ACT, but I could only that I’m self-studying in my essay but not the score because the AP test is in May and the application deadline for most colleges is January.</p>

What do you all think?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure what your schedule is, but I would say it depends on your other AP’s. I took AP Psych, Micro, Macro, and Lit in junior year with SAT’s and scored well on all 5 tests. Granted my social life suffered :P</p>

<p>The AP Psych exam is one of the easier AP exams in my opinion. I took a class but it didn’t really help- Barron’s set of 500 flashcards were basically a life saver- it seems ridiculous but if you can have good familiarity with all of them, you’re basically good to go.</p>

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<p>Alright, so I had a question.</p>

<p>I want to cancel one of my AP exam score but i passed the deadline to cancel it from the score report. </p>

<p>I can still cancel the score, but not from the score report. </p>

<p>Is having it in the score repprt THAT important? Does it matter?</p>