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Is AP Environmental Science a Joke or Justifiable?

Posted on July 7, 2023 by admissions.blog

If you are taking AP Environmental Science because you see it as an easy A, don’t you think admissions officers at selective colleges and universities will see it that way too? While AP Environmental Science has gotten the reputation as a pretty easy class hardly worthy of an AP designation, it may occasionally be worth taking.

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