However, being well rounded can help you get admission into colleges as well. The question you want to ask yourself is how important this elective is to you, and how much will it benefit you to take it. My guess is that, most likely, you’re better off taking the AP classes, but only if you can handle the work load! Remember, bad grades in AP classes are still bad grades. Good grades in normal classes are better than bad grades in AP classes.

Even if you aren’t striving to go to a good school, I still recommend taking the AP courses. I’ve taken 3 and I can promise you that they prepare you for life after high school wonderfully. They might be harder, but you’ll be thanking yourself in the future.

In any case, you can always pursue the elective in your own time. It’s a lot easier to study photography or Asian studies or something like that on your own than it is to take an AP course independently.

would you rather get into a new college and have the some elective, OR have a new elective and not get in a GOOD college.

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hmm..i’d take the AP classes and the old elective..

but it will be a challenge though..