I sh!t you not, but I had AP art (not art history) in High School. I spent months putting together this huge portfolio and hundreds of dollars getting slides and things framed. I scored real high on it, and had offers from a lot of art schools but didn't go that route. I even won artist of the year or whatever its called, where there is one kid in each dept that gets to go up on stage at graduation and gets a big medal. The damdest thing is that I swear I can't draw, sketch, paint, etc. I have no idea what my art teachers were thinking.
The portfolio was hilarious! It had a 3-5 page paper that had to be completed plus a mini questionaire, then everything needed to be sealed in their respective tamper proof pakaging and then it was all overnighted to Duke university I believe for judging. I'm still not quite sure what the hell happened.