As registration draws near for next year, students frantically shuffle their AP orientation papers together. From AP World History to AP Calculus, many students are influenced to join by their friends.

This influence has its negative affects on the AP student. Why are students joining AP classes because their friends are joining? That is plain stupidity. What would he or she do when they fail the AP class, finally realizing that they could not handle it in the first place?
A person must know themselves before doing anything. If one was to apply for a job, he or she must know himself or herself well enough to know if one is responsible enough to take on the job. The same goes for AP classes; one must have the responsibility and effort to make it through the class.
Sometimes, doing one�s best is purely not enough. AP classes are rigorous courses that one takes to improve their learning skills, even though so much of the student population takes them to impress colleges.
It is understandable that sometimes students do not know what to expect, but it is all in the risk of taking those classes. If one does not do above average work in regular classes, an AP class should not be recommended.
Many AP classes, if not all, give summer assignments to students taking the course in the fall. The work is plentiful and extreme. Yet, it causes students to drop out of the course — the very students who signed up for it just to get into a �great� college. If a student is planning their �best summer vacation,� they will most likely skip their summer work, or skip the class.

By Staff Reporter Reanna Moon