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Not only that, but kids absolutely do know which AP courses are "easy" and which aren't. If you're not amazing at math but still want to maximize your chances at getting into an ivy league school, I could see a lot of kids preferring to take something like this over calculus entirely because they're trying to keep their GPA as high as possible.
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AP doesn’t necessarily carry the weight it used to depending on the school.  

A couple days ago I was reading a post from a teacher who teaches AP physics that was complaining that he has to regularly give remedial lessons in algebra concepts.  That one of the students is not well suited for the class (they also were far behind where they should be when it came to reading skills which were at an elementary school level) but the guidance counselor kept pushing him to go to college to become a mechanical engineer.