<p>My son has to pick his next year, HS Junior, schedule. Does anyone has any input as to pick MUN Honors (it's a class not a club in his school) or APUSH? MUN is on a 2-year track; APUSH is for Jr year, AP Gov't/Econ. for Sr. year.</p>
<p>He is planning to take Eng Hnrs, a foreign language, AP Calculus BC, AP Chem, AP Music Theory, AP Computer Science. He likes history but APUSH has tons of workload; MUN helps him on presentation & research skills but he will be missing on learning in depth history (though MUN also covers history, more like a regular history class). One is an honors class, the other one is an AP class. Given this schedule, I am not sure if he should add another AP to it. His college major will be in science. </p>
<p>One college rep. I had talked to prefer him to take APUSH since it's an AP class. True? But, every top ranking student in his school takes/took MUN(my son is just a B+ student). Main reasons are for future interview skills, colleges like to see MUN class on transcript(true?).</p>
<p>If he forgoes APUSH, he has to forgo AP Gov't/Econ. too.</p>
<p>I am not familiar with MUN as a class, so I can’t comment on how it looks to colleges. I wonder how prevalent this is as a class in the US? My only advice is to carefully read the description of what is covered in MUN over the 2 years. Then you and he can decide if it is an acceptable replacement for APUSH/Gov/Econ. Is he really locked in for 2 years if he should change his mind after the first? No flexibility to take MUN for a year and then switch to Gov/Econ? What history and social studies classes did he take his first 2 years of high school?</p>
<p>As a part of your decision criteria, take a look at the website for a few potential colleges and view how they apply credit for AP courses. A high score on APUSH is usually well regarded.</p>
<p>If son will be a science major he can use his APUSH and AP GOV scores, assuming they are high enough, for some distribution credits. That will ease his load some down the line.</p>
<p>Have had kids do both. In my experience, the MUN track leads to AP tests being more challenging. Lots of 3’s. However, the real world skills learned, public speaking experience and camaraderie developed in MUN far outweighs the credit. Only get to live those years once. I certainly do not think taking MUN is looked at negatively on any transcript.</p>
<p>Has he had an American History class? If he hasn’t I’d strongly recommend that.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of doing Model UN for a class, though our school has an arrangement where you can do Model Congress or Model UN and take a test as a way of getting out of NYS’s one semester government requirement. It’s strictly an extra-curricular activity though in our school.MUN is certainly a plus as an activity - the question is whether it’s a plus when it means eliminating a real history class.</p>
<p>My older son, a science guy, was very happy that his AP Econ and APUSH class got him out of distribution requirements at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>One of the high schools in our area offers MUN as a class. They regularly win top honors at the competitions on a national level. MUN is also a club on college campuses as well so if your son enjoys it he can join on the college level.
The intensity of the class depends on the instructor. The class at the high school involves a lot of research, papers, public speaking and current events.<br>
Joining MUN did not preclude taking AP History nor AP Government however, most students took both in addition to MUN.</p>