<p>So this is my situation:</p>
<p>I currently have credits for two years of spanish. I took Spanish 2 as a freshman and Spanish 3 as a sophomore. Then, when junior year began to roll around, i stupidly decided not to continue onto Spanish AP and spent this whole year without a foreign language class.</p>
<p>Since most colleges recommend 3 years of foreign language at the minimum, my counselor and I decided to sign myself up for AP Spanish Language, replacing the AP Psychology class that I had originally picked. </p>
<p>However I am doubting whether or not I should take this class. I had less than stellar teachers during my sophomore and junior years (one quit halfway thru the year), and I haven't retained much of the stuff I learned.</p>
<p>Should I take AP Spanish Language during senior year and risk lowering my gpa (but fulfilling college recommendations)? Or should I go with the original plan and take Psychology AP. If I end up going with Spanish, would self-studying for the Spanish SAT ii during summer be suffiecient review? Im really torn on this problem...</p>
<p>Can you not take both?</p>
<p>AP Spanish is probably more worth your while in the end, but AP Psychology will probably be much easier. Thus, it depends on what you’re looking for.</p>
<p>I would take the AP Spanish class. I was in a similar position to you come senior year–I came in very shaky with my Spanish skills (we were given a page of ap style practice questions near the start of the year and I ended up getting NONE of them correct (it was multiple choice, too)), and with a history of decent, but much-too-easy Spanish classes.</p>
<p>I ended up studying like crazy for the ap exam, and was able to bring myself up to a reasonable level in time for the test. As corny as this sounds, it was much more rewarding to study and learn Spanish than it was to memorize a long list of terms and names for AP Psych (which I also took).</p>
<p>Plus, as you probably know, you will probably get AP credit for a 4 or 5 on the Spanish test at most every college. Psychology, on the other hand, may not give you credit depending on the college.</p>
<p>Spanish. Pysch is kind of a joke and foreign language is important for your transcript.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice guys, i think i’ll definitely stick with spanish next year</p>
<p>@brahms91: unfortunately, our school does not allow us to take more than a certain number of classes. my history, math, science, and english courses left me with only one elective =P</p>
<p>good choice then, grades don’t matter too much senior year</p>