<p>I'm a junior, I have a pretty heavy course load (AP U.S. History, AP Language and Composition, Honors Chemistry, Honors Integrated Math III, College Prep Spanish and Personal Finance). I've taken Spanish both freshman year (college prep) and sophomore year (honors). This year I dropped back down to college prep because the Honors Spanish IV was going to be way too much for me. After a couple of classes in CP A Spanish, I just don't feel that there's any benefit in it for me. </p>
<p>So my question- will only having the two years of Spanish hurt my chances at getting into a good school if I drop my Spanish class this year? And should I drop Spanish, would having only five classes hurt me any? Is that too light a schedule even though four of the five are honors or AP classes. I'm not looking to get into Ivy League schools or anything along those lines. I'm interested in schools such as Penn State, Villanova, Virginia, North Carolina, Syracuse, and other schools along those lines. Basically major eastern and Atlantic large state universities.</p>
<p>In Virginia, 3 years of one language or two years of two languages is a requirement for the advanced HS diploma, FWIW, so a lot of people applying to UVA do have at least 3 yrs IME. But you'd be evaluated against out of state students anyway I think so it doesn't really mean that much. If you can do another year of spanish, it certainly won't hurt you. I think you should consider completing a third year.</p>
<p>Syracuse requires "a minimum of three years of a foreign language" in addition to 4 years of English, math, science & social studies. So dropping Spanish will certainly be a negative there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. I really wasn't sure whether it made that big a difference. I guess I'll just have to bear with it for one more year if I want to have my choice of schools.</p>