Changing Foreign Languages Junior Year

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hey guys, I’m new to this forum but I need some advice. I’m now a junior in high school and I’m in french 3… I’ll give a backstory…
In middle school we were required to take Spanish. I got A’s in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Spanish. These classes were like Spanish 1A, 1B, and 1C respectively. However, when I signed up for my freshman year classes, I chose Spanish 2, but they had no room for me in any classes so they put me in choir 2. I tried Spanish 1, to a response of classes being full. So, I dropped choir and replaced it with French 1 (a mistake I regret because I need Spanish for college and want to minor in it…) Realizing that I want to minor in it this year, I studied the content of Spanish 1 & 2 so I could slide into a Spanish 3 class 2nd semester. I really should be in AP Spanish Language, but I need to make up for the time I’ve lost. I’ve gotten A’s in French Level 1, 2, and Level 3 (1st semester). I will determine if I want to do AP Spanish Language next year or Spanish 4 depending if I get my A- and speak with the teacher on ways I can improve. Am I making the right decision? I’ve emailed UC and they sent me back this: “Thank you for your message. A decision to switch languages does not have any disadvantage to the review of a freshman application to UC.”. I’m determined to work hard so I maybe can take AP next year, but this is what I’m looking at:
AP Statistics
AP Eng Lit Cmp
AP US Gov Pol/AP Microeconomics
AP Enviro Sci
Choir 3/Stud Govt/Elective
Span 4 OR AP Span Lang

Any advice? Thanks.

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I’m a junior as well, next year planning to take AP Spanish. I think you should consider taking a community college course on spanish over the summer, and then take AP Spanish. If you are going to minor in spanish, though, you will most likely not be able to use your AP credits for college. I think you can handle AP Spanish if your class rigor is easy enough for you to handle an AP class, but if you are taking 5 other accelerated classes, then maybe just do spanish 4. I think you can do it though! If you are passionate about the Spanish language and like learning, I think you will be fine. I did hear that AP spanish was a pretty challenging AP class though, so you should probably talk to students who have taken it before at your school because every teacher is different.
Good luck!

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You can switch only if you complete Spanish 5-6 honors or AP, because UC’s want to see foreign lAnguage up to 5-6 or higher in one language.