How Will Colleges Look Upon This?

Yamster
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:43:51 +0000

I’ve decided not to take Italian my final year of high school because I have already fulfilled the foreign language requirements, taken Honors Italian in 9th-11th grade, gotten As and A+s each year, and I also took Italian in 6th-8th grade. Guidance counselors at my school say all the successful students at my school took foreign language all 4 years of high school.

I decided to not take it so I could take 2 AP science courses (I’m going into medicine, and possibly double majoring in engineering). Not taking Italian was the only way for me to do this. I want to go to Ivy League schools or 7 year medical programs. Is this really going to look bad? I’m also only taking college level social studies courses (but they’re not AP courses). I am, however, taking AP Calculus, AP Literature, and two AP sciences.