<p>I'm a sophomore this year, so after the summer I'll be a junior which is the first year my school offers AP courses. I'm making my schedule soon, so I'm wondering, with this setup, if APUSH is worth the difficulty factor colleges look at compared to the stress alongside other classes?</p>
<p>AP Psychology
pre-AP precal
dual credit 1301 (English)
Honors Bible (Bible courses are required, and I can't remember if this is AP or not)
Honors Spanish III
AP U.S. History (difficult teacher; alternative U.S. history is a really easy class)
AP Biology (difficult teacher, however I'd like to keep my Med school option open)
If it's 8th period, I'll be doing Choir as a Fine Art, otherwise that's out.</p>
<p>I'm not going to have a job, and am working on better study habits. Could I have some opinions?</p>
<p>I’m not really sure how much it makes a difference, to be honest. I have to ask though, where do you live that you need to take bible studies?</p>
<p>For a psych major, the most important here is the AP psychology and AP biology, if you’re going to drop an AP, I would guess APUSH is the least critical. If you don’t take APUSH, could you use that time to find some extra circulars that relate to your prospective major?</p>
<p>I probably could, but I don’t have any ideas on what. This summer I’m volunteering at a children’s hospital, and this school year I’m volunteering in the Relay for Life. Got any other ideas?</p>
<p>Usually, US History is a graduation requirement in high schools in most states. So, APUSH is more important than AP Psychology, unless you can take it another year. </p>
<p>If your future college gives credit for AP courses, APUSH also might be considered the equivalent of a 2-semester US History survey course. AP Psychology might only be the equivalent of a one-semester introductory psychology course.</p>
<p>AP Psychology is not that difficult compared to APUSH. Easily, it could be self-study, but that’s harder to do with APUSH. I’m not too keen on high school psychology courses anyway, AP or not—often they’re somewhat watered down or don’t present certain topics accurately.</p>
<p>If you’re planning to major in psychology, AP Psychology could get a pre-requisite introductory psychology course out of the way, but imo, it would be better to take APUSH since it might get count for other types of general ed or distribution requirements. Also, there are some public universities that have an American History or American Politics general ed requirement, for which APUSH might count.</p>
<p>There are some advantages to taking the introductory psychology course at the school where you intend to major in psychology. Some colleges might prefer that you take it there since they might cover some additional topics, and some colleges have two introductory psychology courses—one for majors and one for non-majors.</p>
<p>Don’t be in a rush to try to take courses you think are specific to a potential psychology major. Students often change their majors once they’re in college. It’s much more important at this point for you to focus on math and science courses as a background.</p>