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Ap Classes In High School

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Ap courses are of offered all over the country to high school students to take. Ap class are very hard and rigorous courses to take so, are they worth it for a high school student? Yes, AP classes are worth taking even if they are very stressful because they look good on college applications and more. Colleges look for students that took AP classes and Ap students do better In college. Also, Ap class are tompuaty so, to is not like you will be in that class forever. When colleges are looking at student applications they always look to see if that student took ap classes in high school. Colleges believe that people took AP classes in high school are better

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