I’m a senior this year and will be applying to Ivy League colleges. I have taken Spanish since 8th grade (4 yrs) and I signed up for AP Spanish this year. However, I don’t really see a point in doing AP since I don’t forsee interacting with a lot of spanish-speaking people in the future, and I am thinking about taking AP Statistics instead, which would be a double math since I am already taking Discrete. Would it hurt my chances of admission not to continue spanish? Also, would it help for math/sci oriented schools such as MIT?
<p>Bump! Give me your opinion please!</p>
<p>check the websites for the colleges you are considering....you may find that they have a foreign language requirement that you can pass out of with a decent score on ap span. </p>
<p>Stats is a good course, but not really hard math (algebra I is the prereq), so MIT prolly wouldn't care about it.</p>
<p>Are you taking another math course senior year? If yes, then colleges would rather see AP Span than AP Stat. AP Stat doesn't get a lot of respect. On the other hand, it isn't a big difference so indulge your own preferences some.</p>
<p>Note on that: most foreign lang requirements can be passed out of with a decent SAT II score as well.</p>