2010-05-11, 01:07 AM
Heya Keith ;]
You're still way too young to know what you want in the future. Don't worry too much about it and focus on graduating. I never took any AP Classes but I did finish my IB Diploma. In many ways I regretted it because of all the time I invested and it didn't pay off as much as it would have if I just did regular classes. It was a great experience so I'm glad I took part in it but grades/scholarship wise it wasn't the best of choices. (I didn't have weighting just because the classes are a little harder than regular, and the same goes for my friends that did AP) Don't even get me started on Theory of Knowledge, some 4k+ word Extended Essay, and 200 Creative, Action and Service hours.....
The content you learn in AP classes does help with college but what's more important is your work ethic. As long as you have that, you'll do just fine AP or otherwise and I guess all the people with good work ethic take AP. I really don't recommend you use your AP classes as credit for 1st year classes because the transition is rough for some people and I heard lots of stories about people who did skip 1st year classes and bombed the 2nd year classes.
You're still way too young to know what you want in the future. Don't worry too much about it and focus on graduating. I never took any AP Classes but I did finish my IB Diploma. In many ways I regretted it because of all the time I invested and it didn't pay off as much as it would have if I just did regular classes. It was a great experience so I'm glad I took part in it but grades/scholarship wise it wasn't the best of choices. (I didn't have weighting just because the classes are a little harder than regular, and the same goes for my friends that did AP) Don't even get me started on Theory of Knowledge, some 4k+ word Extended Essay, and 200 Creative, Action and Service hours.....
The content you learn in AP classes does help with college but what's more important is your work ethic. As long as you have that, you'll do just fine AP or otherwise and I guess all the people with good work ethic take AP. I really don't recommend you use your AP classes as credit for 1st year classes because the transition is rough for some people and I heard lots of stories about people who did skip 1st year classes and bombed the 2nd year classes.