<p>I'd just like to get some votes. </p>
<p>I'm personally going with AP all the way. My friend failed APUSH in his first semester of junior year, but did Running Start (Community College) and regained the credits there. I also know a lot of students who have never taken a single honors or AP class before who are doing fine in CC Running Start.</p>
<p>What do you think, though?</p>
<p>It totally depends on the rigor of the AP programs at your high school versus the community college, and which classes you are taking as well as the teacher. I would say more is expected out of a college class, though.</p>
<p>Well where i’m from the community college near us is practically a joke. everyone from there transfers to really good schools like uc berkeley, usc, nyu, etc etc because it’s so easy to get good grades. </p>
<p>I think it depends on what AP’s you’re taking too. Some of the AP’s in my school are a total joke like APUSH and AP art history but some are really hard and rigorous like AP english, world hist, chem. </p>
<p>I think AP’s are harder hands down.</p>
<p>I agree. One of my friends took AP World History with me during our sophomore year, and now he’s doing Running Start. Yet he admits that AP exams are the “hardest tests ever” lol</p>
<p>I’ve found that condensed community college classes over the summer are actually quite arduous.</p>
<p>But generally, I’d say it leans to AP, since community college generally tends to cater to less academically oriented people.</p>
<p>It likely depends a lot on the schools, and which courses.</p>
<p>Note that it is common practice for high schools to extend APs which correspond to one semester courses in university or community college (e.g. Calculus AB, Statistics, Psychology, Government, Environmental Science, Computer Science A or AB, Chemistry) into year long courses. For those courses, it is likely that the half-pace high school courses will not seem as difficult as the college courses.</p>