<p>I'm taking all honors classes next year+the sat's and i realized too late that i should have picked an ap class and dropped an honors. I thought i could take it all senior year but then my university can't see what ap's i took. So i'm self-studying easier ap classes, since this will be my first ap. The other problem is that i need to take an ap test that the university will give me credit for it. And i plan to go to a very selective university, like boston uni, nyu, columbia. Which of these courses are offered credit for harder to get into univs? Like a uni that needs a 1900+ on sats for admittance.</p>
<p>Psychology (mandatory for all 12th graders, but i'm going to ask the counselor if i can self study in 11th. But i'll be missing out though, i heard the class was really fun)</p>
<p>Macroeconomics (i was going to study this but my bro said that it's pretty useless)</p>
<p>Microeconomics (ditto)</p>
<p>Environmental Science (again, said useless, i don't know if it is though)</p>
<p>English Lang & Comp (i'd need to improve on my writing but that would be doable, i can probably get my honors teacher to check my essay's)</p>
<p>Statistics (I heard this was pretty tough though, so i'm a bit afraid to get started on this. And how difficult is it compared to algebra 2 and geometry?)</p>
<p>The classes are only as useful as you make them to be. AP gov would mean nothing for an engineer who cares nothing about politics, while AP gov covers almost all things that I care about. </p>
<p>With that being said, psychology is definitely the easiest to self study. It’s some vocabulary and basic experiment procedure. Economics is harder, and is kind of hard to grasp with just a guidebook. Lang requires good essays and good reading comprehension and good grammar (which leads me to hope that the “essay’s” is just an honest typo.) Although I haven’t taken stats yet, I think that it is safe to assume that it is harder than algebra 2 and geometry as it is a college intro level class.if you struggle with the algebras and geometry, it probably isn’t a good idea to take stats.</p>
<p>Some of the best universities don’t offer any credit for AP classes, no matter the score. For other top colleges where the average test score is above 1900, they may likely only give credit for 5s on certain tests. The tests most likely to not be accepted by top colleges are psychology, the governments, and human geography.</p>
<p>On another note, if your score is in the 1900 ballpark, it is best to not have high hopes for schools like Columbia, where 1900 is definitely below average. In Boston University ans NYU, the average score is slightly higher than 1900, so having a 1900 will definitely not equate to being accepted. (Not to say that it can’t happen, it just means that your changes aren’t superb.)</p>
<p>I didn’t even take the SAT’s yet. But from when I took the psat’s it was in that region, and i’m sure I will get higher when I take the actual SAT’s. For NYU, you CAN have an SAT score in the 1900 region for acceptance. And since I got a 690 on the reading section, yeah, that was an honest typo. And since I don’t recall struggling extremely on the Statistics questions I took the other day, I guess i’m going to take Statistics, with my AP Language and Composition. Thank you for answering the questions.</p>
<p>I would do some research on which APs you could use for credit at each university that you are interested in before deciding that something is useless. I’m taking both Micro and Macro just because many of the colleges I’m interested in require them as part of the core curriculum. Well, that, and because I’m in AcaDeca and I can get 5s easily without any study books because of it. The usefulness is different for every university you go to. I’m self-studying Human Geo this year because my counselor told me it is the easiest AP test and it counts for my #1 college.</p>
<p>I have seen that most colleges accept ap environmental scores of 4 or 5. Also, in my ap chemistry class this year my teacher encouraged us to take the environmental exam without the class and everyone who did including myself got a 4. Some studied but I was too busy with other ap classes. Of course all of us are proficient in science but to me it was mostly common sense. I would however try and find a quick review guide. My teacher gave us a sheet of 140 facts to know and we knew most of them already. Personally, English language was my most difficult ap but I am by no means a writer. The actual class improved my writing but I feel like it is doable to self study as it is more of a skill test. Not sure on economics but good luck with whichever exam you choose.</p>