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Is it that bad to not take AP US History in high school?

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Uncle.Badness
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Alright, so I'm going to be a junior and we have to do our course selection this coming week. I already have been cleared for all the APs I wish to take and my schedule is going to be pretty hard as it is. I've been in AP history courses since freshman year and even though I've sustained very high grades, I hated both with a passion. I love math and computers and that is reflected by the classes I'm taking. My schedule next year is going to end up being:

Religion( I have to I attend a Jesuit school)
Latin 3
AP Calculus BC
AP Psycology
AP English Lit
AP Computer Science A
and either AP US History or regular US history

What I'm really wondering is will it really matter to colleges if I drop down to regular history just for this year in order to lessen my workload a little bit in order to focus on the subjects I'm actually interested in persuing to a high academic level. I plan on applying to universitys liek Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and U of Washington if that helps at all. Thanks for any advice
May 5 2011 4:15PM
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BIGben*
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You take latin in the states???
May 7 2011 12:50PM
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ViktorVaughn
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Until you graduate everyone is going to make high school sound like its important, life or death. When you get to college start worrying about shit. 1.0 credit isnt going to hurt you any, but it also wont secure you anything in a job hunt, in addition to having little value, if any. you'd be surprised what does and doesn't count towards a major. Bottom line is, don't stress it.
May 7 2011 12:58PM
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VT_FLO
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take the shitty hard classes if your going for ivy league.
May 8 2011 5:35PM
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californiagrown
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stanford=Ivy league??
May 8 2011 5:40PM
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ashamedkrew
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colleges won't care, BUT i would if you can handle it.  I opted out of it because I didn't want to have Calc AB and APUSH in the same year, but later found out that Montana State would have given me 8 credits for just getting a 3 on APUSH.  That's a quarter of an entire year of college, just for that class.  For 80 some bucks.  It's crazy
May 8 2011 5:46PM
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tds103
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Stanford is not a ivy league...
May 8 2011 6:11PM
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californiagrown
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seriously? no way!
May 8 2011 6:11PM
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BMB
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i'm living proof
May 8 2011 6:14PM
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springz
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APUSH blows, the only good thing we ever did was make this video
May 19 2011 2:11AM
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East.
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Ask your teacher if you can take the AP Exam without taking the course. Usually if you just pay the fee you can take the exam. It's honestly not very difficult, know your presidents, policies, and what they affected and you'll be fine.
May 19 2011 3:38AM
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Yinzer
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well unless you want to get credit for it in college it
May 19 2011 4:23PM
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Yinzer
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doesnt really matter. does look like you will be going to school for it so forget it. NS mobile blows
May 19 2011 4:26PM
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