Which AP Courses Should I Take?

Applying to College
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How do I decide which ap exams take? Do I go for the ones most likely required in college for graduation? Classes that are related to my future major in college? Or just experience the class? Because the tests I actually pretty expensive.

2

I just took the ones I thought I could pass and might be required for college general education. Money was a big issue though.

3

I would counsel you to:

  1. Consider what your future major might be…
    if you are thinking STEM, then AP Calc should be in your future and at least one AP science.
    If you are history then APUSH, etc.

  2. What are you interested in?
    Maybe you want to see if you like Psychology? Take AP Psych.

  3. What do you think you will do well in?
    If English has never been your strong suit, then take Honors instead of AP.

  4. Not just take AP for the sake of AP…like don’t take AP Enviro Science just to take an AP

  5. Look at likely colleges (e.g., your state flagship) and see which AP courses you can get credit for

  6. Can an AP course satisfy a req? E.g., if you have to take a financial literacy course, then AP Econ may be a way to fulfill it, be reasonable work-wise, and get you credits at college

7)Not take too many APs in one semester…dont’ take AP Bio and AP Chem unless you are in the top 5 in your class

  1. But now I am seeing you are talking about tests and not classes…so some of the same applies…Look at likely colleges…what scores do you need to get credit? You might think that $90 bucks is alot, but if it saves you 3 credits of college that could be thousands of dollars…and if you can save a semester of college that can be tens of thousands of dollars. I would try to take all of them, but then priorize studying based on:
    A) WHich class are you doing well in
    B) Which class would you get credit vs. advanced standing
    C) WHich classes can place you out of having to take a course (like AP Spanish with a 5 gets you out of foreign language requirement)