Should I take AP Art History?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi guys! I’m a rising sophomore who will apply to TAMS and TALH (they are both 2 year early college/residential high school programs in Texas).

For our course selections for sophomore year, I chose principles of health science as one of my elective classes. However, I’m going to try out for the tennis team this summer, and if I make it health science will be replaced with tennis. Now I am having second thoughts and am thinking of instead replacing health science with AP art history. I believe that will strengthen my application (especially to TALH, which is largely humanities-based) since art history is considered a (kind of) humanities class.

So my question is, should I do this? If I do decide to, I will have to first make the tennis team (which I know I can 100%) then drop it on the first day of school. The reason is that that way I can say that I am dropping a UIL activity (which is one of the only valid ways to change your classes after school starts).

Thank you for reading this and please give me some advice. :slight_smile:

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Only take if you actually care about art history.

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I agree with @easyalesseffort. Unless you plan on going to the most prestigious schools in the nation, take the APs you want to take. If you really enjoy learning about Art History, you can consider taking it. If you feel uncomfortable about it, don’t feel pressured to take it.