<p>I just registered for my senior classes and unfortunately I won't be able to fit in a 3rd year of spanish. I'm going to be taking 4 AP's, leadership, and the electives I need to take to graduate. My counselor who went to UW said that even though UW recommends 3 years of spanish I should be fine because my GPA and extracurriculars (3.99 UW) but I always hear that if a college specifically recommends something, you should follow it unless you have a good excuse. I could've taken spanish 3 but I would've had to taken 2 more online classes which are expensive and time consuming :/ I'm in-state by the way.</p>
<p>As I’m sure you already know, 2 years of Spanish is the bare minimum to fulfill the CADR prior to admission to UW, and 3 years is required for graduation. So theoretically there is no problem with you taking 2 years of Spanish in high school, and then going on to take Spanish 103 at the UW. It just isn’t preferred. </p>
<p>Consider taking Spanish 103 at a community college, possibly this summer (you’ll have to get onto that asap if you’re interested), or next summer. </p>
<p>since I’m taking a break from spanish for a year, I wouldn’t have to restart at UW? @Candela2 </p>
<p>@goblazers, you can start with Spanish 101 if you want to, but it’s not required. You are free to begin with Spanish 103, which is where you would be placed considering that the second year of Spanish in high school translates to Spanish 102 in college. </p>
<p>According to the UW page on the foreign language requirement, “If, after your admission to the UW, you start over again in the foreign language you took for two or more years in high school and used for admission, the first college quarter is considered a duplication and you are not awarded college credit. The course and grade will appear on your college transcript, but will not count toward your credit total or your GPA. You will receive credit for all language courses from the second quarter on.”
You can find it here: <a href=“http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/general-education-requirements/foreign-language/”>http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/general-education-requirements/foreign-language/</a></p>
<p>I got into the UW as a transfer with only two quarters of French from my CC while going into the college of Arts and Sciences. Having three quarters of a foreign language is only required if your intended major is in the college of Arts and Sciences. I’ve talked with my CC counselor about this before and she said that it’ll hurt your application, but insignificantly.</p>
<p>oh okay thank you! i’m definitely not starting over then haha @Candela2 i hope it’s insignificant 
@potatomawnster</p>
<p>I got in with two years. Then again my parents made a $2.1 million donation to the school.</p>
<p>@ZacharyZacharias - Now that doesn’t really help the OP, does it? Please try to keep things on topic.</p>
<p>Yeah it does. I’m telling him that to get into any school you want, all you need is uber wealthy parents.</p>
<p>I got in with two years. My parents didn’t make any crazy donation or anything.</p>
<p>Many of the college of engineering students don’t have more than 2 years of high school equivalent language when they graduate from UW because it’s not required. One year of language at UW is considered equivalent to 3 years of high school foreign language.</p>
<p>@speedsolver thank you so much, I just started freaking out over this 3 years of Spanish thing and then i just saw this. I was worried because I read somewhere that generally those that apply to UW have 3 years of Spanish but this just made me feel so much better haha </p>