My school tries to put everyone in AP classes. I was in 11th grade last year and I didn’t take any because I didn’t want to, I was trying to raise my GPA so I stuck with honors & standard. But this year I’ll be taking 3 APs just to show colleges that I can handle a heavy courseload. My counselors try to force everyone into at least one AP class even if you’ve got awful grades just because they’re trying to make the school look better and say that they have a huge percentage of AP students. (I signed up for Latin 4 and got put into AP Latin!) It’s this new rule that started last year from our new superintendent, and actually most kids failed their APs. But your school does sound very odd. You should really try to squeeze yourself into at least one AP no matter what it takes because colleges want to see you can handle harder work.