<p>What should I take as an AP class my senior year? I definitely prefer AP Psychology over Spanish, and most of my friends are taking it too. I heard that colleges like seeing four years of Spanish though, and I was wondering if they would rather see AP Spanish over AP Psychology. And btw, the AP Psych teacher in my school is sort of an ass so the difficulty level between AP Psych and AP Spanish is pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>at my school ap pyschology is a blow off class all the stoners take </p>
<p>take what your think youll do best in</p>
<p>is your major psycholgy/medicine???</p>
<p>What AP Spanish is it? Language or Literature?</p>
<p>Statistically speaking, the AP Psychology and AP Spanish Language tests are about the same level of difficulty overall (though this includes natural speakers). The Spanish Literature test is one of the hardest tests.</p>
<p>I would definitely take AP Spanish unless you needed AP Psychology for your major.</p>
<p>I’ve taken both classes and, in my experience, AP Spanish Language is harder than AP Psychology. However, if you’re applying to one of the reach, only 10% get accepted schools, they do prefer four years of a language. I called some of them at the beginning of this year and they said they do prefer four years. I would recommend you take AP Spanish</p>
<p>AP Spanish would definitely look more academic/rigorous to colleges, but only take AP Spanish if you’re sure you’ll do decently. It’s a really hard class (at least where I live) It’s not fun failing and having to drop it midway.</p>
<p>Edit: Also, psychology is a reaally interesting class… :p</p>
<p>It’s hard to say without looking at your entire HS transcript but, generally speaking, taking Spanish through the AP level will look more impressive than taking AP Pysch.</p>
<p>My school just calls it “AP Spanish” so I don’t know if it’s Language or Literature.</p>
<p>And I probably won’t need either Spanish nor Psychology, I plan on majoring in Economics with a double minor in Philosophy and Environmental Science.</p>
<p>I’m going to ask around upperclassmen and see how challenging AP Spanish is. But from what I heard, kids find AP Psychology really difficult in my school because the teacher’s insane.</p>
<p>Also, is AP Psychology self-study-able?</p>
<p>Most of the top schools would like to see four years of foreign language, so I’d recommend going with Spanish if you can only have one or the other.</p>
<p>To OP’s question of AP psych being self-studiable … it definitely is, much more than Spanish, not because it’s ‘easier’ than Spanish but simply because it’s an interesting, intuitive topic whereas Spanish requires a lot of rote memorization, complex and irregular grammar, and interaction practice (orals, etc)</p>
<p>Yes, AP Psych is self-studiable, but what would the point be? It wouldn’t show up on the transcript, and the AP test result would come long after admissions decision were made.</p>