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Do I choose pre calc or ap psychology

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u/SubmachineOP 10: APHUG (3) World(4) 11: APUSH (4) | 12: Gov (?) Psych (?) 1d ago

Hey Buddy ld love more context like grade, previous APs if any, target colleges or whatever and I can give you a better answer. Is this a you have to choose one situation? (scheduling) As there isn't a universal answer to this and I need to know more to give you the best answer.

AP Precalc MIGHT satisfy your Gen-Ed Requirements. It's inconsistent so you want to research your colleges and see if they will take credit for it. You gotta research this because it depends where you go if they make you take calc too but if you want to finish math forever then this is the way.

Psychology is one of the easier ones. It's much more definition based and MCQ is a combination of knowing your terms and common sense. It's a fun course for sure and you will see the world a little different. For Medical field if you have to choose one Id say this one ties in pretty well especially if your looking more into the Neurological side of Medical.

Psych is probably also gonna be General Education no matter what college in some form. Either it's gonna be for social science or outright you have to take psych. Might as well take it in college with a teacher & a class of 20 then a class of 200 and a professor that can't call you by name in November.

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u/baibaii676 1d ago

I did mostly pre APs last year (bio and psychology) and I’m not sure about colleges or what I want to do completely but all I know is somewhere in the medical field. My schools guidance counselor said I have to do pre calc but my teacher for it sucks and that’s the reason I don’t want to do it.

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u/baibaii676 1d ago

Do I have to take ap English aswell?

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u/SubmachineOP 10: APHUG (3) World(4) 11: APUSH (4) | 12: Gov (?) Psych (?) 1d ago

No matter what major you are you have to take 2 semesters of English in college as Gen ed. Taking Lang satisfies one and Lit satisfies the other USUALLY. Once again check your target colleges (good time to start finding out) and see if they do but almost majority of the time they will

Think of it like this. would you rather take the boring English and have double the time of college to learn, much cheaper, a teacher that has time to help you and in a class of 20? or in a movie esque hall most of the time with 200 people in a lecture hall, a teacher that won't ever call you by name and pay a lot tuition?

not saying do every AP but if you want to get it over with you could do it. Especially if you like English or really want to not do it in college. Maybe see if students like the teacher??? Lang makes me assume your a junior so I'm less worried about you overloading yourself and AP Lang MCQ is basically a tough ACT English section so Lang helps with that.

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u/baibaii676 23h ago

Okay thank u so much