<p>Hello! I just have a question regarding my senior year schedule, so here's the situation:</p>
<p>I will have a rigorous course load, which I hear colleges like to see, but I've got a scheduling conflict. AP Spanish (Spanish 5, I've taken 4 levels of Spanish so I technically meet any sort of "Foreign Language all 4 years" requirement) is the same period during a mandatory elective I have to take for the school newspaper (of which I am EIC). I cannot drop the Newspaper elective, and my counselor and I have tried to even but me in a regular Spanish 5 course where the teacher would give me the AP work, etc. etc. Should I just drop Spanish and call it a day? Would not taking a foreign language senior year hurt my chances? Should I take level 1 of some other language -- and would that make me look like I was taking the easy way out?</p>
<p>I'm looking at the Ivies, and specifically Brown says "...take a language your senior year." I just want to get the most out of my schedule.</p>
<p>Regarding rigor, my course list is as follows: a college math course (1.5 periods), AP US and Comp. Gov (1 period), AP Physics (1.5 periods), AP Economics (1 period), AP Lit (1 period) and Newspaper & Journalism (1 period). That's 7 out of 9 periods. </p>
<p>I could take a second science for 1.5 (Bio, Chem, or Environmental - Environmental is the blow off one, so it'd be like another elective, yet Environmental Studies is what I want to major in...)</p>
<p>TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! Sorry for writing this much...</p>