Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help me decide if switching from college english to AP lit my senior year is worth it?
I wasn’t even considering taking AP lit considering that its pretty hard and work-heavy at my school, and my senior year is already pretty loaded, but my school counselor said college english is looked down upon by most good colleges and since my intended major is in the humanities field (psychology), taking college english instead of AP lit would show that I don’t care about humanities and I would regret not taking AP lit if I got rejected everywhere. Would switching to on-level physics and taking AP lit be a worthy decision? Any replies would help
My senior year schedule is like this:
AP MIcro/Macro
AP Bio
AP calc BC
AP comp sci principles
AP physics 1
Internship half a semester/AP gov half semester
college english
BTW, if it helps I’m applying to georgia tech (in state), UNC Chapel hill out of state, a few UC schools and Columbia ED and I’ve taken all most every AP my school offers.
Is “college English” an actual college course in English composition and literature that is non-remedial and suitable for college frosh to fulfill the college’s English composition requirement?
Psychology is not a humanities major; it is usually seen as a social science.
UC schools do not give need-based financial aid to out-of-state students, and large merit scholarships are rare.
Yes it is but the credit is only accepted at community colleges, even smaller state schools don’t recognize the college English credit. And do the uc Schools offer absolutely no financial aid at all for oos students?
We were told the same thing by my daughter’s GC at a public high school in Georgia. That seniors take MOWR College English because it’s easier than AP Lit, and that admissions people are aware of that reasoning.
It depends if you would rather take AP Physics or AP lit. Take the AP you are most interested in because you already have quite a bit of rigor. If you are seriously considering going to a UC I would take AP lit or at least take the exam because it is one of the few APs that gets you a significant amount of credit. As far as UC’s and out of state financial aid/scholarships, out of state students are eligible for regents (honorarium + full need) and some campus specific alumni scholarships, however, these scholarships are extremely hard to get. At UC Berkeley only 400/85,000+ were offered regents with only 10% of those being out of state students. IDK about other financial aid for out of state since I live in CA
Seems like it is considered too low level (i.e. remedial level from a college standpoint), so that a high school AP English course would be higher level than that course.
Is there a different college English course that you could take that is transferable to GT and UGA as a course that fulfills their English composition requirements? Of course, you should expect such a course to be more difficult.
You have a rigorous courseload, so I wouldn’t add this AP unless you drop one, which given the course description of the other English option, you probably should do. I’d recommend switching one of the AP science classes with AP Lit
thanks for all the advice! I will probably end up dropping AP Physics (which I am very eager to do because I hate physics) and replacing it with AP lit
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@ucbalumnus Yikes. That is news to me. I already knew that UC schools had to offer financial aid to their in state students before they offered anything to out of state students but I didn’t know it was that serious. I might do some more research on that because my family definitely needs the aid and if UC’s cant provide there would be no point in applying.
I think you will probably find that UC schools are not affordable for OOS students who need a lot of financial aid. That is why my D applied to USC (a private school) but couldn’t really consider Berkeley or UCLA. If you like California, you might consider USC.
Looks like AP English and regular physics makes more sense for you.