<p>Hello~ I'm a junior in high school right now and I have been thinking about what classes to take next year. During a club meeting today, the teacher in charge, which happens to be the senior AP English teacher, made a warning to the juniors that they should all take AP English next year. She says that if we are planning to go to a 4 year college, colleges won't even look at you unless you have Senior English AP because writing scores are so low now. This freaked me out because I wasn't even planning to take it since I wanted to take Psych AP. I really don't want to overload myself and drop out of a class senior year or fail any of them but I do want to get accepted into a 4 year college. I am not sure if I want to go to a 2 year/transfer or a 4-year one immediately, but I need some advice. Please help! </p>
<p>That’s not true. However, College Board says that students who take AP English Literature perform better in college than the students who did not (but come on, they say that for every course). </p>
<p>Now, you should not take AP English Literature if you don’t like to read intensively and annotate a lot, just don’t. I would ask your counselor if there are any other courses offered that may be almost or equivalent rigor as AP English Literature. If you end up taking it, you’ll be fine - just self study AP Psychology, it’s the most popular AP subject to study for and it’s EXTREMELY doable, I took the class and I found it mostly pointless because I could’ve easily hit the prep books and passed the exam (but the class was indeed intriguing). </p>
<p>Your teacher is mistaken- no college will reject someone because they didn’t take AP english.</p>
<p>Many top high schools don’t even offer AP English and their students go to 4-year universities. You should take the class if it interests you, but there are few, if any, consequences if you do not take it.</p>