<p>Hi, I am currently a junior in high school. This a very rough list of the colleges I intend on applying to in the fall:</p>
<p>Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Emory University
Georgetown University
UNC Chapel Hill (in-state)
UC Berkeley
UCLA</p>
<p>I consider myself to be (hopefully) an above average applicant for these schools, aside from the first two. I won't list my stats for everyone to pass judgment (at least, not for several months), but I do have a major concern that has been nagging me for several weeks now about my number of foreign language credits.
My school is extremely new - my freshman year was the school's inaugural year. The school opened at first only to freshman and sophomores, and each year a new grade was added as the first sophomores moved up in grade level. Because the school had just opened, the number and availability of classes was extremely limited and obviously the sophomores got first pick at the Spanish classes. I was unable to take any foreign language freshman year as was the case for nearly all freshman. I was able, after a long and difficult fight between my parents and the administration, to get Spanish I my sophomore year. This year, as a junior, I was only able to squeeze in Spanish II with three APs and precalculus, but there are a very marginal number of current juniors taking a third Spanish.
Next year, my senior year, I decided to take classes that interested me, namely: AP Lit, AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Psychology. I honestly do not have any affinity for Spanish and am not interested in taking a third or fourth credit in it. However, I am becoming increasingly worried that the schools at which I am applying will only notice my lack of four years in a foreign language and not the fact that I am taking challenging classes that I am interested in my senior year. </p>
<p>So, CCers, what should I do? Email my counselor and tell her to drop Psych for a third and fourth credit in Spanish to strengthen my application? Or take classes that I have a passionate interest in senior year, and pray that these schools do not think less of me for it?
Thank you for any and all opinions!!</p>