<p>Hi, I'm a junior and I'm planning my senior schedule. My question is, do colleges prefer rigorous classes over those related to your major? I'm planning in majoring in Biomedical Engineering and I was wondering if I should take AP Psych over Biotech. Biotech is more related to my planned field of study, but Psych is an AP class (even though it's low on the scale I guess).</p>
<p>Any thoughts? Thanks.</p>
<p>Take the class that you really prefer to take. You will learn more, and you will do better in it.</p>
<p>It’s just one class. Think about it this way, if you were only going to take one AP and this was it even if you could be taking four or five other APs, it’s not going to help. If you are taking other APs, not taking an AP to pursue an interest is very reasonable.</p>
<p>Take what you’re interested in. One AP more or less isn’t going to change anything.</p>
<p>I would recommend taking the Biotech class. It will give you more material to write about on college apps and speak about during admissions/alumni interviews – because you will always be asked “why major?”</p>
<p>If you want the GPA boost from
AP Psych, you can always take an online university level course this summer 2012.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. I will choose to take biotech along with AP (stat+chem+lit+gov+env/sci). That’s still pretty rigorous I think.</p>
<p>I have another question: Is it worth it to self-study BC and risk not getting a 5, as opposed to sticking with AB (the class I’m in now) and getting a 5 guaranteed? </p>
<p>(I asked this in another thread but it was slightly contrary to the topic so nobody answered)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Why aren’t you taking the AP Math BC course at your school? Is it not offered?</p>
<p>If you are junior in AB, just take the following math courses at community college next year if you want to take more math. Choose the courses transferable to the state flagship for math and engineering majors.</p>
<p>Biotech sounds great. Our HS offers lots of AP’s and courses, but not that one!!</p>
<p>^^^I doubted my math and time management abilities last year but I can handle it now.
^^I may still do that but with linear algebra and/or differential equations. Thanks.
^From what I hear its a pretty cool class; it’s almost all labs. It should be fun!</p>
<p>I’ve decided to take the BC test. With the curve, as long as I get a 90% on the AB questions I can get around a 45% on the BC material and still probably end up with a 5. I looked at the topic and my AB teacher already taught us some of them (L’ Hopitals rule) and I know a few of them from AP Physics C (vectors, dot product, cross product). I’ve started with parametric equations and I think that I can get at least a 4 if not a 5. I still have the AB subscore as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the help everybody!</p>