Some AP Classes are an easy A and the hs students know which ones they are. My daughter took AP human ecology to get the weighted grade. EASY A. The colleges can look at a class schedule and know that kid is a slider.
“Some AP classes are an easy A...:
Yup. However, a lot of students think this: do the AP class/pay for the test/get the college credits. They can then have the flexibility, for example, to lighten a semester load to say 12 or 13 credits when they take the difficult classes for themselves (a lab science, for example). Plus, any semester LESS at a university means less money in the long run. Even a “free” semester at a college (meaning 15 credits of AP) can be big money that they don’t have to spend. I love AP classes for this very reason!