AP class vs. 3 years of Spanish

Applying to College
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<p>My schedule currently is: AP Bio, civics, AP lit, leadership, AP calculus work experience, and ROP drama.</p>

<p>My goal is to get into UC Berkeley so should I drop AP bio and take another year of Spanish completing 3 years of a foreign language. I'm already struggling in my AP bio class and the only way I can add Spanish 3 is by eliminating an AP course, I have to take 4 years of both math and English to graduate, and have already satisfied my 2 year requirement for science.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley has become very selective. Why would you choose to do less than the recommended a-g requirements? So, for language</p>

<p>e. Language Other than English—Two years required, three recommended. Two years of the same language other than English. Courses should emphasize speaking and understanding, and include instruction in grammar, vocabulary, reading, and composition. Courses in languages other than English taken in the 7th and 8th grades may be used to fulfill part of this requirement if your high school accepts them as equivalent to its own courses.</p>

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<p>In all honesty, drop whichever one you feel less comfortable with. A-g recommendations are not set in stone, so it wouldn’t matter much if you make up for the lack of 3 years of language with an AP class, especially a rigorous AP class such as AP biology. Keep in mind that you should try to excel in the field you are majoring in. Likewise, if you feel that AP biology is too much, by all means replace it with Span. 3 ( assuming you don’t want to major in the biological sciences). Both would be good options, and you should try to make yourself less stressed out. You did enough of that the last three years, I bet.</p>

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<p>Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science has a foreign language graduation requirement. Completion of the third year of high school foreign language is one way of fulfilling it, although there are other ways, such as doing well enough on a language department placement test.</p>

<p><a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/fl.html[/url]”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/fl.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you so much for your responses :)</p>

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<p>If it were me, I’d take the 3rd year of Spanish and avoid having to take a year of foreign language at Cal.</p>