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.
My counselor also told me to take AP Lit. I think it depends on how good your AP Physics teacher will be. Mine was horrible. I had to study my butt off to get a 4. If you’re a STEM person, though, and the teacher is halfway decent, maybe keep both? I know that AP CSP is not a lot of work. I can’t speak to the other classes, but I’m taking AP Chem, AP Lit, AP US Gov/AP Comp Gov, AP Stats, Orchestra, AP Micro, and AP Spanish Language, if that gives you any frame of reference.
If you are majoring in Psych, no need to take 2 AP science classes at once.
Have you taken AP Psych to make sure are intersted?
Is there at least Honors English? if not I would keep with AP Lit.
actually the ap physics teacher at my school is AWFUL; majority of students get c’s and b’s, so I’m taking it online (yikes). Switching to onlevel physics is still an option for me though. But then I get scared that Georgia Tech will like look down on me because I took the easy way out of a science class?
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@bopper I took AP psych as a junior last year, but I took it online because it got filled up at school. I am also hoping c colleges won’t look down on this because my counselor said online classes are valued less than classes taken in person. and thanks for the advice! I will probably drop ap physics
Did you take in online and get credit for it? That is, is it on your transcript vs. you self-studied? If so, then don’t worry about it.
its on my transcript, thanks! @bopper