If you looked at my high school transcript you would see a clear theme for all the classes that I took over four years. Looking at the STEM classes I took, you would notice a long list of chemistries, computer sciences, and biologies--a handful of them AP classes. Glance over at the social sciences and languages and you would see the bare minimum. I took three years of spanish, humanities and advanced English for the first three years. You could safely detect where my academic strengths are--math, science, anything left-brained. It could also be identified where my weakness are, (language obviously) and why I’m not majoring in English next year. However, as you reached the end of my transcript you would see a class and, based on the previous 40 classes, would think it was a typo: AP Literature. Cause that makes sense, right? No. For some reason(s) I decided to take AP English this year. I was concerned about going to college without any high-level English courses under my belt. Also, I didn’t like the idea of some of my friends getting huge advantages when writing college essays. I know that last years class would have been best to learn craft, but this course helped a ton (I didn’t have a strong base. Ha.) Now looking back at it, taking AP english was a great choice. It expanded my English prowess and made me more of a well-rounded student.
