<p>So I just got my school schedule for my senior year and I have AP Government. I pretty much already know where I'm going to school and I will have no trouble getting in so what would be the pros and cons of taking AP Government my senior year?</p>
<p>Pros: It's easy as hell to get a 5, and college credit is college credit.</p>
<p>Cons:</p>
<p>^ditto. </p>
<p>Cons: you have the option of forking up $80-something for the test, which I refused to do.</p>
<p>Don't you have to pay for the credits as well? Is it really that easy though? I was in AP World History back in 9th grade and dropped out after 5 weeks. I'd rather just drop this class and get out early from school and have less work for my senior year.</p>
<p>^No, you don't have to pay for the credits, and yes, it should be pretty easy. You can self-study it if you want.</p>
<p>Well, if you're going to have trouble paying for school, or it's going to be tight, or you want to get rid of an annoying credit so you can get on to the stuff with your major, or if you want to double major but have a little more space in your schedule to take other classes...why not just take it? Take it for the sake of educating yourself :p</p>
<p>Besides, something odd could happen in the admissions process that you never counted on...and you might be happy to have that AP Gov course bolstering the theme of continuing hard work into senior year.</p>
<p>I'm most likely going to ASU. Taking AP Gov won't be the reason they decide to accept me.</p>
<p>ap govt's not usually considered a hard class. is it really a big deal?</p>
<p>on the 5 thing--i took it last year and got a 5, but i didn't think it was easy. our class was really bad, though, and our teacher got fired at the end. according to collegeboard, only 6% of people get 5s. usually as least 10% of people who take a given ap test get 5s.</p>
<p>It's an pres. election year... AP Gov will be as interesting as heck. I wish I could have taken AP Gov this year instead of last year. I had a great teacher and I loved it even though I thought it would be boring.</p>
<p>But looking at the answers you're getting, I guess people figure CCers don't want to hear that sort of stuff (being interested in classes? OH NOES). Anywho, my advice is that if you're interested in it, do it. If you're not, then save yourself the work and do something that you'd like more.</p>