Is psychology considered a science?

bluebayou
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:32:21 +0000

The Univ of Calif considers psych a social science, so likely MIT will too. As a general rule, such requests are for Lab Science classes.

Moreover, even your teacher writes you a ‘best of career’ type letter, it prolly won’t carry as much weight as a lab science rec bcos IB pysch may not considered as rigorous at the HS level. While I don’t know about IB, I do know that AP Psych is a so-called AP Lite; the reason being is that pysch is typically a semester course at college whereas the big three sciences are year-long courses.

My suggestion is to send the psych rec as a supplemental, i.e., a third rec, particularly if its outstanding.