Bit of a different viewpoint here - I teach at a university, and I'm not sure if AP courses are the best thing for student success in post-secondary.
It will look good on your transcripts for admission, but only if your grades are actually good; you have just as much of a shot of being admitted if your grades are good in "regular" courses.
AP credit sometimes allows a student to skip, say, the first prerequisite course in a discipline (in my field of teaching that would be Political Science or History). But not all universities treat AP credit the same, so sometimes if you have a low grade in AP they'll make you take the course you were supposed to get AP credit for anyways.
Also in my experience teaching AP students, it puts them at a disadvantage in terms of their learning. Sure they sometimes have the convenience of being able to skip "Intro to PoliSci" or Canadian history, but it doesn't do them any favours when they're in the next course up and don't remember/master the concepts that were presented in the intro course.
Just my two cents.
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