My junior year I am interested in taking Spanish 3 and German 1. Problem is, I also want to double up my maths (AP stats and precalc or AP calc AB depending on if my teachers let me take precalculus over the summer), and that takes a lot of room. I aspire to be a computer scientist, electrical engineer, or math teacher. Although I would love to take German and Spanish (multilingual), I don’t know it it’s the best decision over a class like AP stats which would benefit me major wise.
Prospective schedule:
Engineering class (STEM program)
AP English Lit
AP stats
AP CS A
Precalculus honors or AP calc AB
Honors chemistry
Spanish 3
German 1
(Take history online at a community college.)
I DO have the option to take intermediate Spanish and beginner German in the summer if I wanted to. Then I would be done with Spanish and could just take German during the school year, which might be a better option for me considering all I would like to take. (However—I’m still kind of torn if I would like to take higher level Spanish.)
Would it be the best idea to take both at the same time considering my schedule and career goals?
Would taking intermediate Spanish in the summer be the better option, because then I could just take German during the school year?
Has anyone else on here done this? How did it go for you?
No it won’t. Stat in college, which is calculus based, would be more beneficial.
Six of one, one half dozen of the other. The only thing I would caution is that 2 years of HS German will not get you far. Maybe you’d get placed into 2nd semester German in college. However, if you’re going to be an engineering major, you might not have room to take German in college.
German is potentially more useful than hs stats to a future engineer (especially if you’re aiming for colleges like Georgia Tech which encourage engineering study abroad in Germany.)
However if you took German 1 in community college you would be able to jump right into high school German 3. I’d take German rather than stats as an elective.
However one more year of Spanish would be considered ‘core’.
I’m not sure I’d recommend the compressed format of a summer class for pre-calculus, which is a fundamental background class for calculus. It really depends how the class is taught, how much trig youve had with algebra 2, how good a background it typically provides… If the class has a good track record on preparing for calculus then it’d be a good investment.
I recommend that you drop stats and German and take an AP history class at your high school (unless you have already exhausted all of the history classes your high school offers )