<p>I was just wondering...I was going to take AP lit my senior year but AP language sounds more appealing to me so i signed up for it...</p>
<p>but now some tell me that colleges prefer AP Lit more because you're reading all the books that you need to have read before entering college...</p>
<p>Should I take the challenge and take AP Lit and not AP Language...I'm not sure if I want to take both...</p>
<p>i heard colleges take ap lit over ap language and some don't even recognize ap language</p>
<p>but i took ap lang this year... it was fun =)</p>
<p>take language junior year and lit senior year</p>
<p>Look up the AP policies of the colleges you are considering. The two AP exams will often give you the same credit.</p>
<p>the lit exam is so much more fun!</p>
<p>what's the difference between the two?</p>
<p>I'm just taking lit next yearbecause it gives me less summer homework, and is supposed to be the easier one.</p>
<p>the difference is basically that lit focuses on novels and fictional works...</p>
<p>language tends to focus on nonfictional works...biographies, speeches, etc...and at my school more ppl tend to choose language b/c it's known to be easier...</p>
<p>maybe that is why top selective universities dont prefer ap lang cuz ap lit is more rigorous...</p>
<p>IF i were to take ap language...does that reduce my chances of getting accepted into top universities??? anyone have further suggestions?</p>
<p>it doesn't reduce your chances at all, but at some colleges you may not get credit for the ap exam.</p>
<p>ap lit is the only one offerred here anyway though</p>
<p>lit is harder</p>
<p>All I can say is that Lit is far easier at my school, although the consensus all over the country is that it's harder.</p>
<p>Lit is a LOT more fun but you need to know the language really well to do lit so I recommend taking Language first.</p>
<p>If you like reading and literature analysis, take lit. If you like linguistics and such, take language.</p>
<p>I'm taking both right now and I personally like literature better. I think it really depends on what you like though. I'm not very good at writing and so I'm struggling a lot with language. However I'm very, very good at critical reading and understanding symbolism, so I'm doing very well in literature.</p>
<p>In my school, you can take AP Lang. as a junior and AP Lit. as a senior...</p>
<p>Same with my school.. AP Lit is only offered to seniors, and it's definitely harder than AP Lang.</p>
<p>It's harder to take AP Lit without taking AP Language before.</p>
<p>I am enjoying AP Lit much more than I enjoyed Language last year, that's for sure. I've never heard of colleges counting it more though. Some colleges I know count them the same. Some only count one of the two.</p>
<p>At my school, juniors take lang and seniors take lit. I would consider lit to be harder than lang, but last year was our lang teacher's first (and last) year. Generally, the only reason I would consider lit to be a harder class (I don't know enough to say that it's a harder test) is because we read about two books a month, plus assignments, essays, etc. for them, whereas our language teacher really had no idea what she was doing.... Perhaps as a testiment to lang's supposed easyness, half of our class passed the AP test, even though we were hardly adequately prepared.</p>
<p>The only college that I know of that treats the two English tests differently is Harvard, with regards to acceleration credits; English Language is treated as half a credit while English Literature is treated as a full credit.</p>
<p>Does having had a foreign language help a lot on the AP language & Composition exam? I'm taking AP Language & Composition next year (junior year). I was looking in a book, in which questions were asked on different words in different tenses, all of which I know from having Spanish IV right now...How much of the exam should such prior experience help one with?</p>