Here is a post from a student who passed the AP 12 test. Maybe this is what it takes for success on AP, in college, in life? Vocab = smart. There is no better formula:

I haven't been to Facebook in three weeks and everyone is poking me. This could be for one of many reasons, the first being that I'm reading the book Jane Eyre (for the first time) and underlining every word that I need to look up, whether it be for the definition, or for history's sake. Either way, the book is covered with small green marks. The pen even sits contentedly inside my book as my bookmark. I often picture myself pulling out a brand new journal and a fresh pen and carefully logging each word and it's definition or explanation; kind of like that man in the library back home, the one I'd see almost every day taking some sort of resource book and colorfully logging it's contents in a notebook full of graph paper. I secretly envied that man, even though I think he was homeless, and I never knew exactly why. Perhaps it was the way he seemed so genuinely occupied and happily busy in his endless task of copying data from one book to his own. To be so satisfied seemed so foreign. To absorb everything and anything seemed so valuable. What a crazy idea, the pursuit of knowledge.

Indeed what a crazy idea. Learned people, not even necessarily smart people, control the world, they hold the power, their pockets run deep, they are the presidents and the millionaires. Wanna join that club? Start now.