I’m currently going into my junior year of high school and got a recommendation from my math teacher that next year I should take AB+BC conjoined instead of taking them separately so I could take multivariable calculus my senior year. The issue is that doing this causes conflict with the Latin III class I want to take next year. I would like to have 4 years of a language class before going to college, but to do this I would sacrifice taking multivariable calculus, which I really want to do. What should I do? Could I potentially take Spanish I and then Latin III my senior year? Would colleges still count that as 4 years of a language class? I’ve also heard that AB+BC calculus was much harder than taking the two classes separately; is this true?
In my school, AB is just AB, and BC is AB+BC combined, and yes, it is relatively harder than AB.
I was in the same boat as you when it came to languages. I was screwed on the first day of school because when I got my classes, I didn’t have a 5th hour (which is where French was supposed to be).
I talked to my teacher about it and she said I could self-study French IV and continue on to AP French my senior year like I intended to. So, ask your Latin teacher about it.