As a high school student, the most boring class for me so far is Spanish. Last year, I took Spanish 2 Honors, but this year I intentionally dropped to Spanish 3 due to my disinterest and to open up time to self-study AP Statistics.
I plan to continue the language through high school, but now I’m worried that my decision to drop Honors Spanish looks bad in college or makes it seem as though I’m a quitter of sorts. Personally, I want to learn Japanese, but it isn’t offered at my school.
So I guess my two questions are 1: Is dropping Spanish 3 Honors a bad idea in the midst of Spanish 2 Honors? Also, do colleges consider that you are interested in a particular subject or not, and might explain certain choices you’ve made in your schedule?
Who drops a class for self-study an AP? Did you decide to self-study in the middle of the school year?
Do you think really good students can’t get bored by some of the things they are required to study? The difference is that they find a way to make it work.
If Spanish was so bad, you might have jumped over to another language early on or even looked for alternates at a local cc or university.
No reason not to drop to take Spanish 3 instead of honors or AP. The only thing you want to be sure of is that it doesn’t change the way your guidance counselor evaluates the rigor of your overall academic program. (You want the ‘most rigorous’ box checked off, ideally.) If changing from honors to regular doesn’t impact this, then no problem unless you are planning to be a language major. I gather that’s not the case. And yes, you can self-study for the AP - but schools don’t care about your AP score - it’s self- reported - so if you have something more valuable to do with your time, do it.
I spoke with my counselor about it and she considers my schedule to still be very rigorous. The only other class that would make my schedule more rigorous is a combo class with AP World one semester and AP Euro during another, but that doesn’t seem like a good class to take as it’s crammed. I’m still taking 3 Honors and 1 AP
It was only this year as a freshmen that Spanish started to become tedious and boring. I am trying to get into the University of Michgan and they prefer 4 credits of the same language. Switching now would not allow me to meet hose requirements.
And we cannot take other foreign languages outside of school until our junior year, but I’ll be a sophmore
No I dropped it before school starts. After the school year ended, I made th choice that getting AP Statistics out of the way instead of doing it over the year would open up my schedule for more classes and opportunities
Update: I got put back into Spanish 3 Honors because my teacher thought it’d be a better fit for me after the first week. I still plan to self-study an AP though.