<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My daughter is a 10th grader in high school. Her school has a 2 part AP US History program. She took part 1 and is not sure whether to take part 2 or AP English instead.</p>
<p>We were wondering does getting AP US credit help in college if you are more geared to a science/math related field? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Go for English - she won’t need the extra history credit for what she wants to study, but AP Enligh (I’m assuming this is Comp) will fulfill the introductory writing course most schools require.</p>
<p>thanks for your help. We were also leaning towards taking AP English as well. Will it look bad during admission process when they see that you took AP US History 1 but not 2? She did very well in AP US 1, so my thoughts are that it explains that she did not drop it because it was difficult.
thanks again.</p>
<p>regardless she can still take the exam… i took the exam w/o the class and got a 3</p>
<p>It sounds to me that the way your school breaks up the AP US History course is that it makes sense in the end only if you take both halves – i.e. there’s a cutoff (Civil War, perhaps) for the first semester and then through the 20th century for the second.</p>
<p>If I’m right, the logic that you give for dropping the course after semester 1 doesn’t resonate. Your D’s transcript would read more holistically if she completes the 2 term sequence.</p>
<p>Can’t she just take AP English senior year?</p>
<p>I consider history to be hell of a lot more fun than English, so I would always choose history. But that is just me.</p>
<p>Just to update on the post, we did stay with AP US History. She will take AP English next year. From what I learned both APs are important and if possible one should take both.</p>