<p>Is only having three years of foreign language enough for HYPS schools? I don't plan on majoring in any foreign language and I have taken the highest levels offered (honors in 10th -> AP in 11th) and have gotten A's. Next year I need to take an art class for graduation credit and I was thinking AP Music Theory (since I'm interested in music) and want to drop AP Spanish Lit for that. Here is what my schedule would look like w/ AP MT:</p>
<p>AP Statistics
AP Psychology
AP Music Theory
AP English Language
AP Biology</p>
<p>When you're talking the very top school, they want it all. I'd add the Spanish Lit back in. Have you taken AP calc? That's really important, top schools would see stats instead as a big negative.</p>
<p>yes, stats is definitely seen as a major step down from ap calc. I took it my junior year (I doubled in math) and did fine. I'm taking ap calc AB this year, and have an A, its not bad. But yeah, I had the same problem you have. I wanted to take AP Physics and Bio, and would have dropped AP Spanish. But I talked to a few colleges (Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Williams), and they all said to keep going with the language. They said once you drop a language for a year, its ridiculously difficult to pick it up at the level you had it at before you dropped it.</p>
<p>Bottom line: stats and psych wont be hard classes. bio and english will be tough, music theory should be fine if that interests you. and if you've had A's in spanish the last three years, that should be fine too!</p>
<p>But heres my advice: Call the school you really really want to go to. Ask them. If they have a definitive answer, do what they say. If they say it doesn't matter, do what makes you happy</p>
<p>Ah ok, I understand. I'm a junior and I'm taking AP Calc BC this year. Maybe I'll take AP Psych over the summer at a college and I'll take AP Spanish Lit instead?</p>
<p>I'd take some college math since you're so advanced. Top colleges are looking for kids who really run with their talents. For the summer you might apply to a serious math/science program. Take psych in college.</p>
<p>i'm taking ap french this year and next year i was thinking of dropping the subject. this is because there is not enough room. i'm going to be taking english classes at a community college my senior year. will this affect my admissions chances?</p>
<p>I am not sure of the original question. It appears you have already taken the AP course in the language which would mean you have completed at least the fourth year level of that language. If that is the case then you already have 4 years of language and need no more for any of those top colleges. When they recommend 4 years they mean completing the fourth level even if you do that in only two or three years in high school.</p>
<p>:P I took Spanish 6th-10th grade and then quit. I don't know how it'll be viewed by my schools. It's not that I dislike foreign language or that I'm bad at it, I just didn't like the way it was taught (not enough emphasis on conversation) and dropping it freed up time in my schedule to take more electives, including really interesting stuff like Sociology and Film Genre.</p>
<p>But your situation is quite different. If you've already been through AP it looks much, much better. I say if you don't have any passion for Spanish Lit, drop it.</p>