Is AP Comp Sci good on college apps?

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I’m a sophomore planning out my schedule for the e rest of high school. I have room for three semester long electives or one year long elective and one semester long elective. I am taking all of the advanced classes that I can (both AP and IB) so my course load will be pretty rigorous. Right now I am trying to decide if I should take AP art history, AP comp sci, or three misc. art electives. I don’t know what I want to do in college (I can see myself going into STEM or humanities) I just want to maximize my chances of success, as well as do things I’m interested in. I had a teacher say that AP comp sci jumps out on college apps for women, but I’m not especially interested in the subject. AP art history sounds interesting, but I’ve heard it’s super hard and I don’t want to add much more to my workload. I could just take miscellaneous art electives, which would fun but wouldn’t boost my weighted GPA. Does anyone have any advice? Is AP comp sci really good enough on college apps to warrant taking a class I’m not interested in? Would I be worse off taking unweighted art classes? Sorry for the long post, I appreciate any advice :)

Posted Mar 6, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

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