<p>Tufts grants credit for World, US,and Euro, with a 4 or 5, but only to a maximum of 2 credits.</p>
<p>No, four AP classes are not too little! I’m a junior, and I have yet to take ANY AP’s. I plan to take AP Lang and AP Psych next year, though. My original plan was to take AP Euro, but I’ve only heard discouraging comments about it. Plus, I’ve underperformed in history this year in comparison to other years, so I’m thinking of neglecting history altogether for senior year.</p>
<p>I have a question myself: would colleges really care if I take French 1 instead of Spanish 3 next year?</p>
<p>It’s better to take three or more years of the same language. </p>
<p>@Ibad96</p>
<p>Your language classes should be the same language, they want to see you go deep in one language, not a little in multiple languages. Not that high school Spanish really teaches you anything anyway…</p>
<p>@halcyonheather @Ch1746</p>
<p>I’ve only got a C for this past semester. If I were to continue onto Spanish 3, I feel that I’d be struggling to pass. Plus, my school’s graduation requirements for a foreign language is only two years of the same language. Why should I choose to power through a difficult situation in Spanish when I can choose to take French, Italian or Latin?</p>
<p>Also, do schools actually care about how many years you take academic electives? Because I have taken academic electives in freshman, sophomore and potentially senior year, but none this year.</p>
<p>@texaspg I’m being hypothetical here, obviously there’s no guarantee I will get into Tufts (unless I donate boatloads of money 
but since I want to go to that school I need to check what AP’s that college will accept and which ones it won’t. Isn’t that what we like to do on CC, plan ahead?</p>
<p>Thank you @skieurope, I see I have a lot more research to do before next year…so I guess it would be better to just take AP World instead of AP Psychology 
I’ll probably end up doing World next year then, and maybe self-studying AP Psych on my own time (my parents don’t need to know that amiright)</p>
<p>@Ibad96 I’m not the most knowledgeable about college language requirements, but I really don’t think it would be TERRIBLE if you switched from Spanish to another language. It shows initiative that you saw you were struggling and helped yourself out. However, if you do switch out of Spanish you really need to be getting straight A’s in French or Latin or Italian to demonstrate that you’re capable of learning a new language. </p>
<p>@sillyface thank you. Even my dad has doubts about me leaving Spanish. He wants to override two of my recommendations (Probability & Statistics/Discrete Math instead of Fundamentals of Calculus; and Environmental instead of Physics), and I don’t want him to override ANY of them.</p>
<p>Do you mind maybe answering my question about academic electives?</p>
<p>Would it be bad to drop AP English to take another science class (physics honors) that is not AP?</p>
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<p>I have seen many kids blow off an AP exam because the school they are going to has no credit for it but this happens in 12th APs. If they were doing this type of planning, they would have predicted where they are going to go and never taken the AP class which had no credit for the school they planned to attend.</p>
<p>Four is not too little. You’re fortunate that your school even offers four classes for your grade (mine offers 1 for juniors, some have a chance to take a 2nd but the class isn’t even listened in the school program of studies). </p>
<p>Four, to me, is more than enough. I think 3 is much more doable, but four is definitely possible and shows you like to push yourself. </p>
<p>@bozllie I don’t think the issue would be AP vs non-AP. It’s not a good idea to take less than four years of English. It’s an important subject that you need in every field from journalism to neuroscience (and this is coming from someone who hates English class). So stick with English.</p>
<p>@bozille someone already addressed this but I’m going to elaborate. Why would you drop this course? Is the AP work too difficult or do you just want to take another science? As good as another science class may look colleges will completely look down upon 1) dropping an AP class for a regular, and most importantly, 2) dropping an English class. You need English in every field and career. You will always have to write, read, and analyze something in your career. English is essential and it would only look bad to drop it.</p>
<p>@jpascale16 and @callmeC I’m sorry, I guess I didn’t say this: I am taking 4 years of English no matter what. My thing is that “I don’t know whether I should take an AP English course or regular English” not “should I take AP English or not take English.” I can fit in 2 science classes without getting rid of a core class. I would never get rid of an english, math, or science class. I’m sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>I personally am doing 32 this year. And you?</p>