<p>Are there any AP classes that look better to colleges than others? I've only take one, the only one related to what I want to Major. It seems though that you need quite a few AP's to get into top schools.</p>
<p>Colleges are really just concerned about your taking up a rigorous courseload. I doubt they have an order of preference and I doubt they expect you to have a “theme” of APs but obviously Calc BC is recognized as more difficult than Environmental Science.</p>
<p>take AP’s that will fill your core requirements in college (if you know where you wanna go)</p>
<p>Human Geography</p>
<p>I agree with TheRussian. Also, take the ones that interest you/fall into what you think you want to study, if any. For example, if you’re going into art, don’t take AP Bio because you think it’s more impressive, take AP Art Portfolio or AP Art History and so on.
And each school is different, but keep up the rigor.</p>
<p>will colleges prefer to see APs concentrated in one area? (for ex, only taking history APs for a history major) or do they prefer to see a more well-rounded ap selection?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but I think you should just take any APs you can get your hands on, they are all good 
Plus, wouldn’t you have schedule conflicts sometimes?
If you want to take all the history APs, go for it, but sprinkle in some other subjects too, that never hurts!</p>
<p>Well-rounded, of course. There’s not enough history APs to build an entire HS curriculum around it. Once you run out of history APs, what’cha gonna do?</p>
<p>Besides, the history APs are quite easy. I did Euro, US and World all in one year, and got easy 5s. I’m not a history major, BTW.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any clear, definitive way to answer this, but I’ll put in my two cents.</p>
<p>1) If your school offers AP classes, you should probably take some of them–even if it’s only one or two a year. Colleges like students take a rigorous course load. It show dedication.</p>
<p>2) Colleges like “well-rounded” students, and taking a variety of AP classes can show them this.</p>
<p>3) Who wouldn’t want college credit from taking AP exams? By taking the classes and completing the exams, you’re showing colleges that you’re committed to a potential collegial future.</p>
<p>In any case, here are some tips on AP classes to take:
- APUSH & English III: Why? Because both are major “weeding out” classes that colleges use to find out who’s there because they want to be there and who’s there because they’re parents sent them. Trust me. From the horror stories, these are the two drop-out classes that send Freshmans packing home.
- Calculus: I know, we all hate the dreaded word. But Top Tier universities like their applicants to take the <em>hardest</em> class available—and in almost all cases, Calculus is it.
- French/Spanish/German/Chinese/Etc: Taking extra foreign languages is good. I’ve even heard of some colleges waiving the foreign language requirement if you’ve taken the AP and 4+ years. In all cases, it’s useful for college, and you should take it.
- (optional) FINALLY… at least one AP that you would choose by choice to take. AP Art History, AP Environmental Sciences, AP Computer Science… something just to give a little bit of icing on the cake. :-)</p>
<p>hard ap’s…calc bc, ap physics, apush, and ap english are difficult ones…psych, stats, apes…don’t look as nice</p>
<p>I don’t think APUSH is a hard AP. The class may be hard (differs from class to class), but the test itself is rather pedestrian, IMO.</p>
<p>this thing about well-roundedness is rather over-emphasised. colleges want to see that you’re more than a one-trick-pony, but they also want to see that you are passionate about something. if you’re interested in a particular subject, say, math, and have many interesting electives available to you in that subject, you should go ahead and take them. to sacrifice that for making sure you have at least X number AP humanities is unwise. participating in activities for the sake of appearing well-rounded is unwise (i particularly despise this practise, especially when it comes to sport). show that you are a functioning academic, but don’t think that there are APs which you MUST take in order to appear well-rounded enough.</p>
<p>I’ve taken both and I found that AP European is much harder than APUSH.</p>