<p>I want to take one or the other, because my schedule is already filled. I signed up for AP Language, but then people said that you don't actually learn how to write, just analyzing rhetorical devices, which doesn't sound too useful for college. Also, I heard that APUSH has a ton of work, but I am going to take the AP World exam this May, so I don't know if I should take this many AP history classes. I am planning to do something in the math/science field in the future.</p>
<p>I would go with the English class. Learning to write for all sorts of different purposes is probably better.</p>
<p>English, definitely, unless you want to memorize useless facts in AP US.</p>
<p>Also, AP English Language wouldn’t help me move up an English class (I am planning to get into UW). It only counts as a literary and performing arts credit, same as APUSH. However, I do see the point in that it would prepare me.</p>
<p>English, hands down.</p>
<p>The credit you get from APUSH is probably more valuable, depending on your college. At least at my college I can get out of both basic english courses just by getting halfway decent scores on a couple tests.</p>
<p>As much as I love history, I’m going to go with English. The course at my school required a lot of writing, and I think my writing improved a lot during that course. I also helped me learn to write quickly, which is always a valuable skill.</p>
<p>My writing is sub-par… However, I do hope that I can write faster and with higher quality through AP Lang. Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>At my school, APUSH consists of many different writing techniques, and you do indeed learn a lot about writing fast, using many sources to support your thesis, and many other ideas as well. AP English Language also helps you in your subjects. </p>
<p>The main thing to remember is that no applicants in many of the top colleges are the same. Each one is unique. It is absolutely required that you take into consideration what you want to be after college. Do you want to be an author? Then take AP Literature. Or, do you want to be a Historian? Then the answer is clearly APUSH. </p>
<p>If you want to become a doctor, or an engineer, a topic which does not have much to do with these subjects, then definitely pick the course which you would enjoy to be in. Do not take the class where you will be awake a long time memorizing content for the test the next day, but instead, the class where you want to stay up, learning more, due to it being interesting.</p>
<p>You do learn how to write. The bulk of the exam is how to write the essays. The multiple choice is pretty much the same as the CR on the sat sprinkled with some rhetorical devices. </p>
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<p>English. </p>
<p>thats my personal opinion.</p>
<p>I’d agree with the English contingency if your writing is sub-par. Whether it’s more beneficial in college admissions is hard to say, but it’s invaluable to know how to write concisely and precisely once in college. Chapel Hill, which accepts many students from my high school a year, specifically told our IB Coordinator that they are willing to take students with lower GPAs and scores because they know they’ll know how to write when they step on campus. Apparently other NC schools aren’t quite as on-the-ball about teaching their kids to write.</p>