<p>Hi, I'm an incoming sophomore. My school doesnt have a lot of AP courses.. there's one or two science ones. I was thinking of self-studying AP Psych and maybe Human Geography, along with a couple of subject tests. Is there any merit to this? I'm mainly taking them to "look good" on my resume, sure. But I'm also interested in psychology. Would colleges realize that these two are more or less padding my resume? And also, I wanted to get the "easier" ones out of the way before junior year, which is when I'm planning to take a couple of the core APs. </p>
<p>I was thinking of taking (SAT) math II and physics at the end of this year.</p>
<p>yeah, i think the colleges would know that you’re doing it to pad your application, but I think that they still like it. It shows that you go the extra mile to do what you can for your education. Also, since you do not have a lot of AP’s offered at your school, it shows that you did not let that stand in your way. It will be tough, but I say go for it!</p>
<p>Padding the resume or not, an AP is an AP. The rigor involved in getting to the stage you need to be at in order to succeed on the exam is something that colleges are highly in favor of. They look really good on applications, especially to schools that focus on secondary school course rigor. Take as many as you can reasonably handle and you will benefit greatly from it. Nothing is nicer than placing out of courses in college :)</p>
<p>Ahhh. Ur doing AP PSYCH and human geo as a rising tenth grader? Im doing into tenth too and I’m doing AP psych and env sci self study, but I might do human geo instead. And I’m going to be studying for the subject math ok.</p>