<p>So my school let me know today that due to scheduling conflicts, I need to decide whether to take French IV or AP Biology my senior year. I hate French with a passion and am kind of looking for an excuse to get out of it, but I don't think that colleges (especially Ivies) will be thrilled to see only three years of foreign language. And with AP Biology, my teacher is amazing and I am almost guaranteed a 5 on the exam. Here is the rest of my schedule so far:</p>
<p>AP Calc BC
College Credit Expository Writing
Psychology
Honors Economics</p>
<p>If I didn't take AP Biology then I would take:
The 4 above
French IV
CC Human A&P
AP Euro</p>
<p>If I didn't take French IV then i would take:
AP Calc BC
CC Expository Writing
Psychology
Honors Economics
AP Biology
Accounting or AP Euro</p>
<p>So what should I do or in other words...what do colleges want to see?</p>
<p>Bonjour! (I know you hate French; that was just to annoy you:)) This is quite a common sense question. If you truly hate French with a passion, you wouldn't even think of taking French and would go for AP Biology. </p>
<p>Ideally, you would take the classes that you find interesting, and colleges will see that you've challenged yourself. For example, I'm in my fourth year of Latin, but that's because I actually like Latin and don't want to take anything else. Of course, it's generally better to accept students who have shown long-term commitment to their studies, ceteris paribus (with everything else being equal; e.g. same GPA, same extracurriculars, SAT scores, same everything else). But you should take what you're interested in.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, if you hated French so much, then why did you take French I, II, and III?</p>
<p>well okay so i guess it was a little bit of exaggeration, i don't HATE it as much i just dislike it. And I took French I because my sister took it and I thought that I would enjoy it too. Then I continued because colleges like seeing foreign language, same reason most of the kids in my school are still in language classes.</p>
<p>but thanks for the advice, I think I will go with AP bio.</p>
<p>yea, go with bio, colleges really don't care that much if you took 3 years of language instead of 4. They might just glance at it and go "eh," then move on</p>
<p>Biology, not even a tough choice. You would even be bale to say that you couldn't take French due to scheduling issues.</p>