College discussion thread

benkuhn

It's that time of year when high school seniors are thinking about colleges, and by extension, everyone who knows any high school seniors is thinking about colleges as well. So let's let Less Wrong join in!

Do you have:

questions about choosing, preparing for, or attending colleges?
sage advice about choosing, preparing for, or attending colleges?
announcements of which college you'll be attending or visiting and when (for instance, so that you can meet local LWers)?
other things not worth their own post such that 'people who clicked on the "College discussion thread"' is an appropriate audience?

Please post them below!

Do you have:

questions about choosing, preparing for, or attending colleges?
sage advice about choosing, preparing for, or attending colleges?
announcements of which college you'll be attending or visiting and when (for instance, so that you can meet local LWers)?
other things not worth their own post such that 'people who clicked on the "College discussion thread"' is an appropriate audience?

Please post them below!

Taking AP's on your own is totally doable. My school didn't offer any and I took six. In my experience, as nydwracu said, AP Psych is easy. So is Environmental Science and English Lit (if you do well on the english sections of the SAT). World History is interesting, and easy if you like memorization. I've heard Human Geography is easy too. The AP exams of languages that are commonly spoken as first languages in the US (Spanish, Chinese) tend to be harder than the ones that aren't (Latin, German) because native speakers drive the average up (it's not exactly graded on a curve, but they don't want too many people to get 5's, far as I can tell). The language ones can very often get you out of the language requirement in college, which frees up a lot of time.

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