<p>At the end of the last school year, after debating back and forth for about a month, I decided to take AP Biology. </p>
<p>But I'm having second thoughts. </p>
<p>So everyone told me not to take the class, and my counselor reluctantly added me to the list. Truthfully, I planned to take it to impress colleges, but it is sooooo hard at my school. This year (my junior year) is so important to raise my GPA and I don't want another B in AP Biology because I've already gotten 6 B's. </p>
<p>I've done some of the summer homework and I'm just not up to it. I plan on being a teacher for my career and I will not be teaching anything science related. </p>
<p>I'm thinking of Just dropping the Course (my counselor says she will still let me) and taking AP Environmental Science instead which will be a lot easier and an easy A and focus on some other thinks such as fitness. </p>
<p>I’d switch into psych if I were you. You may do just fine in Bio, but succeeding in it won’t be any more impressive than psych will be (unless it’s relevant to your intended major). APs are your chance to explore your interests, and if you’re more interested in psych, then absolutely take it. Don’t take a course you don’t want to just to impress colleges. Just make sure that whatever you do, you don’t annoy people, since you will be asking for recs for a year.</p>
<p>The other reasons I planned to take it was because I’m pretty good at biology and I’m good at memorizing and connecting stuff easily. I also really don’t want to take science in college, but I don’t know if AP Biology or AP Environmental Science would satisfy the science requirements. </p>
<p>If you know where you want to apply, check their course requirements and check their AP credit policy. Some colleges require specific courses, others have distribution requirements (take x science courses, but you choose them), and others just require a certain number of credits in any courses to graduate. Collegeboard has an AP credit policy search here <a href=“AP Credit Policy Search - AP Students | College Board”>Get the Most Out of AP – AP Students | College Board. </p>
<p>Yeah. If you have already taken a biology course, there is no need for you to take the AP version just to impress colleges. You will have a much better year if you take something you are interested in like APES or Psych. Not every one takes those as credits though, so you should double check before applying, but those were generally two of my favorite classes in high school anyway</p>