I remember taking those good ol' AP classes. Did absolutely nothing for me when it came time to get into colleges. Unless you plan on applying to Yale or Harvard, it is really not worth the time taking AP classes. Another reason I took them was because a lot of my friends were in them, so if this is your case by all means take them. I scored a 4 on 3 AP tests and got 2 A's and a B and still could not get into University of Washington (I never intended on going there anyways but it was more of seeing if I could get in). But hey, I feel for the "take an AP classes and get an A and you can get into the big universities." 