<p>I'm currently a sophomore in Spanish 3 and next year I will be taking Spanish 4. As a senior, I will have to take AP Spanish 5, or no language at all. Do you think I should take AP Spanish 5 senior year, or would 3 years of Spanish up to Spanish 4 still look good for top colleges?</p>
<p>For top colleges you are strongly encouraged to take a language all four years of high school, take AP Spanish.</p>
<p>Also, I do very well in Spanish (I’ve had all A’s), but in my school Spanish contains a lot of work and not the best teachers.</p>
<p>You could consider taking Spanish through dual enrollment senior year at a local college (possibly even junior year), that would give you the possibility of getting better teachers while continuing to take Spanish.</p>
<p>I have a similar issue: I’m currently a sophomore at a school with a 4x4 block schedule, so I took Spanish 1 and 2 last year, and I just finished up Spanish 3 last term (which ended at the beginning of Christmas break). I know that it would look better if I took Spanish 4 and AP Spanish, but I don’t think I’m going to. It’s not like I’m replacing it with some silly elective that I’m only doing for an easy A – the spots that those classes would go into will be filled by AP courses that I’m more interested in than Spanish. (Namely AP Art History and AP Psych.) Will colleges look down on me for only taking three years, especially because I stopped during sophomore year? I MIGHT be able to take a community college course in Spanish during the summer before my senior year, but I’m not sure. I was planning on applying to a summer journalism program, plus I will have forgotten a lot of the language by then, haha.</p>
<p>Thanks, but say I’m applying to a business school. Would they rather have AP Spanish over Multivariable Calculus?</p>
<p>I don’t see why you can’t take both (your schedule should have room for a math and language class in the same year). That being said you have to be careful, you are a sophomore, what if you change your mind in two years about what program you want to apply for, maybe you instead apply to some little LAC that requires four years of a language. It really is in your best interest to stick with the class.</p>
<p>I’d be doubling up in math taking AP Stat and Multivariable Calc. I have a lot of time to decide, I was just wondering because I was discussing my future schedules. I could possibly just take both and not have a lunch period.</p>
<p>I don’t know how your school works, but couldn’t you just not take an elective? But anyway, like you said, you have time. Wait and see where you are at when you do scheduling for senior year.</p>
<p>I was going to take AP Gov and AP MacroEconomics for my elective (both are half year courses), but I’ll decide when the time comes. Thanks for your help</p>
<p>Depends what you want to do when the time comes to actually make that decision. Because, quite honestly, very few schools require four years of a language. If you want to go to Princeton/Harvard, then yeah, you have to take four years. But even Cornell and Columbia (at least SEAS) only require three years of foreign language.
If you’re doing STEM, then there’s no reason to take four years unless you want to go to Princeton, honestly.</p>
<p>I want to go to UPenn, specifically Wharton.</p>
<p>In that case, take four.</p>