AP Computer Science A or AP Spanish Lang?

DadTwoGirls
Sun, 28 May 2017 02:44:54 +0000

“I’m interested in majoring in something STEM related”

Spanish is not particularly useful for STEM majors. From what you have said, it sounds like you are not likely to do all that well on AP Spanish. I think that you should forget about taking AP Spanish.

“I do not have any experience in coding, programming, etc”

This makes me question the value of taking the AP test. There are some high school students who have been programing for a few years. However, taking a class in computer science seems very valuable at this point.

“I plan on applying to selective schools (Ivies, Stanford, etc.),”

Ivies and Stanford are extremely long reaches for every student, even ones with straight A’s. Do what is right for you, not what you think that Stanford or MIT wants you to do (and for STEM, I wouldn’t put much thought into the Ivy’s).

From my perspective, if you want to go into STEM, then taking the computer science class makes a lot of sense, and I wouldn’t worry about taking either AP test.