Hello all, I’m back again with a question. I know that just about every day, someone comes on here and asks if only having two years of a foreign language will hurt them. Usually these people faced this because they weren’t maintaining good grades in these classes or they just hated the class. My situation is different. I took Rosetta Stone French while homeschooling in middle school. I am by no means fluent, but I can speak more than the average high schooler who took French. Even though my school is pretty large in size and the best school in a radius of 500 miles or so, they only offer Spanish (and only through Spanish III at that). I didn’t want to abandon French, and I definitely didn’t have any interest in Spanish. So I waited my freshman and sophomore years in hopes that we could get French on campus. It never happened. Now, I am taking French online, and I was hoping to get to maybe French III or IV. The only issue with this was that as I was signing up for the class, I noticed that our virtual school only offered through French II. So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I enjoy French and want to take 4 years of it in the school year and summer, but there is nowhere that I can go about this. Will colleges understand my predicament? I’m not planning on applying to Ivies, but if I did, would the lack of the third year hold me back or would they consider it an exception? Thanks for all the help.
Is there a local college where you can take French (starting at the appropriate level)?
Try taking a practice AP test or SAT II. I would take one or both of these exams in French, if you can score well. You may already know the majority of the topics covered. Taking the AP test would completely resolve your problem for most schools and the SAT II would also show your mastery.
Colleges generally don’t really care about how many years of courses in a language you’ve taken. They care about the level and mastery of the language you’ve achieved.
Agree with post above. See what is offered at a local CC or college. You are probably late for this semester as classes have probably started.
Thanks to everyone for the replies. Very helpful
@tigerrocks13 Since you “aren’t interested in the ivies” (an important point) try contacting a couple of colleges you are interested in directly or check their webpage. My son only took 2 years of foreign language because he wanted to take more technical courses (like computer science.) The schools that he is interested in only require 2 years of foreign language, and all his scores are well above their average acceptance scores. We aren’t worried about the third year of foreign language.