Should I take AP history

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I will be a junior next year. Will be finishing sophomore with A's (92-97). I am contemplating taking AP history class. I am looking into going to an engineering school but like history. I was scheduled to take honors American history II but since getting straight A's I can qualify for AP history however, my guidance counselor and history teacher want to make sure I really want to change to the AP class. Since it will be my Junior year which is very important for college I don't want to screw up my grades. They told me that AP history is a lot of writing and not as much about memorization of history dates. So I have a few questions. I am concerned if I don't do well my first semester it will show a bad grade for my junior year. Will colleges see that at least I tried or is it better to just get A's in an honors class</p>

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<li><p>Do I try it anyway and if I find out its to difficult go back to honors </p></li>
<li><p>just take the honors class since my focus will mainly be in math and science classes.</p></li>
<li><p>what kind of assignments or material is covered in AP history</p></li>
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<p>My junior year is</p>

<p>AP language and comp
pre-cal
physics
Spanish honors 3</p>

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<p>I had the same type of classes as you this year (junior) and I took AP US History. I don’t regret taking it, even though it wasn’t much fun, and surprisingly I got as good of a grade as I’d gotten in CP sophomore history.
For my class, we barely had to do any writing, it was just a lottt of reading and multiple choice tests and quizzes.
In my experience, I have anticipated AP classes to be soooo hard, and same with honors classes when I was younger, and really, they’ve been difficult but not as hard as I’d thought. I think you should try it out and if it does turn out to be too much, go back to honors.</p>