<p>Is it worth sacrificing GPA (and life, and potentially chances at college admissions) to take the classes you want?</p>
<p>When checking out the scatter gram of college admission profiles virtually every student who got into Cal, UCLA etc is 3.9/2200, 50% are at 3.8/2100 range and the chances virtually diminish afterwards. These figures gives little consideration to the course load; almost no one got rejected with a 3.9/2200.</p>
<p>The course in question is AP US History. A class notorious for the mind-numbing workload and revered the insight it gives. The teacher is awesome. The students are top-notch.. and... almost no one gets an A. (Not to imply that SAT directly correlates to intelligence but maybe it means something that the three people I know who got an A got 2350-2400 SAT) Besides I'll be starting the year off with an F, don't ask, basically an A is impossible right now--but a B is likely (with a lot of hard, mind-numbing etc) work.</p>
<p>Do you guys think it's worth investing all that extra effort and ultimately getting a B (and even risking some more B's in my other classes: Calc, Bio, CS, Am Lit and Spanish) or is it better to just take classes where I can virtually assure a 4.0?</p>