<p>How much does Brown care about applicants taking foreign language? I’m in AP Spanish IV this year as a junior (dept is weak and I’m going to fail the AP test), and I want to drop Spanish for next year…I’ll probably replace it w/ AP World History. Would Brown frown on that? </p>
<p>Schedule for next year:
AP Bio or Organic Chem.
AP Psych
AP Eng. Lit.
AP Calc BC
AP World History (instead of AP Spanish V)
2 history electives: mid eastern studies; vietnam history</p>
<p>It seems like it would be a better balance to take Spanish and two histories than take three histories... but once you've already taken AP I don't think they would look down on it by replacing it with an AP class.</p>
<p>Take what you will enjoy. Brown wants interesting kids, kids passionate about life. An extra year of Spanish is not a benefit.</p>
<p>We have frighteningly similar schedules. My school's Spanish department's also very weak. It's so weak that I skipped over a year (due to scheduling conflicts) and am doing fine in the highest level my school offers. I am in Spanish V but like your school, technically, Spanish IV students can take the AP.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that Brown enjoys eccentric students, they do still want the well-rounded student. A rep told me that something like 90% of the undergrad graduate having taken a "core-like," well-rounded curriculum.</p>
<p>I think that Brown would really want someone who isn't afraid of a challenge, in this case it may be Spanish for you since you say that you'll "fail the AP test." They'll probably be more impressed with that than say yet another history. I think that it's pretty obvious that you love social science.</p>
<p>Consider AP Spanish Literature?</p>
<p>I have a similar question. If I were to not take a math next year (AP Calculus), how bad would it look? I would be taking an extra AP English instead.</p>
<p>Calculus is one of the classes that colleges look for when they're evaluating your high school record. If you were on your way to taking calc and then didn't take math your senior year, it definitely doesn't look good. Obviously that alone wouldn't get you rejected, but taking calc is highly recommended.</p>
<p>^ thats not good. ive done horrible in calc so far. (B+/C+)</p>
<p>id suggest you stick with spanish.</p>
<p>Don't take an "extra" AP English. I assume this is Language and Literature? Simply taking one prepares you for both. Calc is somewhat like a filter class, helping a bit to distinguish applicants in the college pool. (Think Organic Chem in college...)</p>
<p>Take it.</p>
<p>nooooooooooooo. calc is the devil!</p>
<p>it shouldnt be counted! ugh!</p>
<p>Relwarc: thanks for your answer.</p>
<p>But what if I can't get a decent grade in it? What if it just drags me down from what I'd rather be doing? (read: English)</p>
<p>Well, no college ever likes to see a student who "plays it safe" and shirks difficult classes. But if you think you'll get like...a C or something then perhaps reconsider and take Calc AB?</p>
<p>But that's not it - I don't care about the grade so much as the fact that I'm really, really sick of math</p>
<p>ilovebrown, what would you say if i'm a junior taking calculus ab ap considering taking prob stats ap instead of calc bc ap? the teacher for bc is impossibly hard. grades for math are all A/a-s and a B</p>
<p>anyone, please? thanks in advance</p>
<p>cptsuperpan, you should take Calc BC....especially if you're applying early action because they accept people EA before 1st semester grades come out senior year. Also, if you're going to end up taking Calc in college because a major, ie a science major, requires it, you'll have a better foundation. </p>
<p>I'm in a similar predicament w/ AP Spanish, because I really don't want to take it. And the school district told our class yesterday that you can only get the weighted credit for either Spanish 4 or Spanish 5. So, if I take Spanish 4 this year, it's AP, but next year it won't be. Wierd, eh? </p>
<p>But that decided it for me. No Spanish. This is my new, "ideal" schedule for senior year, w/ more sciences (I plan to concentrate in neuroscience):</p>
<p>~Organic Chemistry or AP Bio
~Anatomy I; Vietnam and the 60's
~AP English Literature
~AP Calc BC
~World History
~AP Macroeconomics</p>
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~Anatomy I; Vietnam and the 60's
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<p>Agh, I wish our school had interesting courses!</p>
<p>yeah, crimson. I like the courses too. My old hs didn't have nearly this much variety. BUT....3 of the courses I want have historically been offered only 1 period per day and during the same period, so if the couselors keep the schedule the way it is, I don't know what I'll do.</p>
<p>My super-secret plan is to get everyone that's going to take Calc BC w/ me next year to also sign up for Anatomy and AP World so they have to offer them during different periods. Muahahaha!</p>
<p>Lol, I hope it works.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply! if im consider business, poli sci, socialjustice/service, does taking calc bc really matter though? I'm more interested in taking an extra social sciecne course of economics or psychology, but just wondering what the admissions officer would think. thanks again!</p>
<p>my school doesnt offer calc bc....
im doing OK in calc ab right now, and its my junior year.</p>
<p>im currently taking 4 AP classes, AP US, Ap calc AB, Ap am/lit, and AP Physics C</p>
<p>next year i am planning and AP english, AP Comparative Gov, and AP Bio.
our school does not offer a AP class above AP Calc AB. instead there is an advanced calculus class, but I know nobody does anything in there and gets 100%, and i feel i would much rather taking an interesting class like AP psych.</p>
<p>the only other math i havent taken yet is AP stats, which is incredibly easy and a guarenteed 5, which i also feel is not worth taking.</p>
<p>will not taking math my senior year hurt me for Brown?</p>
<p>i have a schedule dilema myself; what do you guys think: calc AB + physics C or calc CB + diff eq?? damn the 7 period schedule with my 8 classes i want to take... grrr...</p>