Hi! I need some help. Should i take Yearbook or AP Psychology. At my school, you need to be recommended for yearbook, and we have a really good natl award winning yearbook. But AP psych is a college course and i am concerned that colleges will be looking down at yearbook. I am planning to apply pre-med and to bs/md/do programs. For some context here’s the rest of my courses:
AP Chemistry, AP Government, DE English 12, Yearbook/AP Psych, AP Statistics, AP Environmental Science, Senior Research
Assuming you have met the foreign language recommendation for your targeted colleges, take whichever one interests you more. You certainly do not need another AP.
If you haven’t taken calculus yet it’d be advantageous to you to switch ap stats-> ap calc. And hopefully you’ve already taken honors physics or ap physics 1.
Other than that, ap psych is a light ap that doesn’t add to rigor, especially considering you’re already taking ap chem, one of the hardest aps.
Basically, colleges won’t care, take what you like best.
I’m already in AP BC Calculus, and need to take another math class (thus AP Stats haha). I’m also taking AP Physics C:Mech this year so I am taking AP Chem. Thanks for the help!
While AP Psych is certainly more rigorous, it appears that you already check the “most rigorous” box and are into the range where an additional non-core AP really won’t move the needle.
Since it will be my first year doing it (next year), not sure if I can get an editing position. However, the sponsor/teacher said that i’d be in a writing role (not sure if that’s a good thing or not).
since i’ll be a senior maybe i’ll get some senior role hopefully if i take
Honestly, I think that AP Psych could be of greater use to you in your future career than yearbook. If you can handle the academic load, I’d go with the AP Psych, not because it will improve your college chances, but because you’ll learn something.
But, if you are good friends with the others doing yearbook, and you’d really enjoy working together on compiling a memory book for your class, then sure, go ahead. Neither one is going to make the difference in college admissions for you - as mentioned, you already have plenty of rigor.
Yes it is (and for the MCAT).
Premed pre-reqs (covering all med schools) =
2 semesters each of General Biology, General Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, English (composition, communication, literature, writing for the professions all OK)
1 semester each of psychology , sociology, calculus, biostatistics, biochemistry, a diversity-focused class (+, more rarelymandatory but useful nevertheless, neuroscience/cognitive science, a language spoken by a group in the US, bioethics)
All med schools require Chem, Organic, Bio, and Physics. Only some med schools require anything else - the person would have to look at the requirements specific to some med schools. Essentially, if one were to choose to take every pre-requisite required by every med school in the country, one would be hard pressed to also fit in a major!
Although there is now a section of the MCAT covering psychology/sociology, it sounds as if the best way to prepare for that section is not necessarily taking psychology and sociology - unfortunately, it’s through test prep, meaning practicing sample sections. But it does appear that schools are “encouraging” coursework in social sciences. Some schools have additional and varied requirements. Harvard’s health sciences and technology program even requires a year of math beyond calculus.
The answer is to look at the requirements for med schools that one might be interested in. But under the circumstances of med schools “encouraging” social science classwork, and the MCAT covering social sciences, I’d say that argues more in favor of taking AP Psych.
