<p>Maybe it depends on what your D intends to major in - my d wants to be a teacher, so AP Psych is a reasonable class choice.</p>
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Many of those also only cover a semester's worth of college work, unless your college teaches these subjects pretty slowly. At my college, some of those covered <em>less</em> than a semester's work (Chem and Bio come to mind).
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<p>Well, don't you go to MIT? And I think what he meant was that CollegeBoard designed these classes to be equivalent to a year long college class, while classes like Psychology and Stats and stuff were designed to be equivalent to just semester long college classes, so they won't cover as much material, which would make it somewhat easier. But then, this isn't always true, especially with either one of the Physics C classes.</p>
<p>Getting back to the OP's question -- Each school handles it differently so you'll have to check with the specific colleges. In general, though, most admissions officers will see taking AP Psych as just additional evidence that your daughter is willing to challenge herself. Since you said that she will also be taking "hard" AP classes (I assume you mean classes like Calc BC or Chem), colleges will not think that shes just trying to get a relatively easy GPA boost. They certainly wont disregard it completely.</p>
<p>Once she is admitted, she may or may not get actual AP credit for the class even if she scores a 4 or 5 on the exam. If she plans to be psych major, its more likely that she will just be allowed to skip the colleges Intro to Psych course and go directly to a higher-level class. If she doesnt plan to major in pysch, she may just get general elective credit, if any credit at all.</p>
<p>do colleges view taking AP government better than taking AP psych? (if either gov or psych is your only social science class)</p>
<p>I'm taking the class right now. I don't think it's especially easy. Easy for an AP course, but more difficult than a normal class.</p>
<p>Just have her take classes that interest her. Don't worry so much about how much colleges are going to analyze every course she has ever taken. They are going to see that she takes a bunch of APs and obviously likes to challenge herself. Do you think they are going to actually think, "Well, she could have taken five APs plus the more rigorous AP English Literature but instead she took five APs plus the slightly less rigorous AP Psychology"?</p>
<p>its is definetly not an easy class...</p>
<p>AP Gov generally falls under the History category. Psych is a social science. If you haven't taken 4 years of history, then take Gov over psych since selective colleges prefer four years of each academic core subject.</p>
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<p>Bad example since AP Eng Lit wins every time (over a non-core elective) since it is a core academic discipline.</p>
<p>It's totally NOT an easy A in my school, the lazy seniors in my class get like B's for the quarter =).</p>
<p>dwighteisenhower--i support u completely. look, i assume with all those APs that the kid is applying to the top schools. those schools dont seriously consider a weighted gpa, they simply look to see that uve taken a very hard curriculum and achieved the best/nearly the best grades possible.</p>
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Bad example since AP Eng Lit wins every time (over a non-core elective) since it is a core academic discipline.
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<p>Whose college does it "win every time" at? Yours? Don't be so sure you have everything figured out.</p>