<p>Really Dude?! You do know that the standard college courseload is 4-5 classes right? Would you expect a college freshman (even at a very rigorous institution) to get mostly C and below? AP classes are honestly at most schools more akin to easier college classes/instructors. I can’t believe I at one point considered AP remotely hard (I recently took a look at AP and HL IB exams and they are cakewalk even in comparison to the midterms of more difficult intro. college instructors. Literally, half of the free response is like essays essentially asking you to recall a scenario or some facts and the more conceptual prompts, except in the case of maybe like physics, math, and chemistry APs can be done by essentially writing down the trend showed in some graph or figure. Little true “understanding” is required, only “knowing”. Even the sciences were kind of “jokeish”. If anything was on par or even relatively hard compared to college, it was the history and language arts exams. And even then, a good amount of college instructors may require higher quality writing). </p>
<p>As a benchmark, I had 5 APs as a senior and I’m pretty sure I almost got A’s in all of them despite having an internship that caused me to skip a significant portion of two of them. The classes that were lower were random electives that I didn’t care about. However, by no means did I plan to start struggling or throwing in the towel. I actually liked my APs. They weren’t self-marketing tools…</p>