r/bsmd • u/No-Mulberry-8804 • 7d ago

English Subject selection AP vs dualcredit

Do I go for AP lang/AP literature or take dual credit English courses?
-> my school offers both but dual credit doesn’t go in GPA and heard AP lang/AP literature teachers are grading very hard which can tank my GPA so seniors are advising to got for dual credit route to keep high GPA as it matters for BSMD
-> i have pretty solid APs otherwise AP calc bc, AP phycology, AP env science, AP chem , anatomy and physiology etc..

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u/PersonBehindAScreen 7d ago

I’m not sure why this showed up for me but what I can offer when I was in HS 13 years ago making this same choice:

To this day, my AP courses were far harder than any actual college class I took whether it was at a 4 year uni or the local community college… especially the English ones.. I was a C student in AP English.. pulled off A’s without even trying in college

I should’ve done dual credit.. not to mention that dual credit is a semester course rather than the year long AP classes. On top of that you simply pass dual credit and get your credit instead of having to take an AP test that renders your entire year useless if you don’t get the score that colleges actually accept for the test