Ok thanks!
You’d have to list “Private tuition: Advanced Spanish” on your course list for sophomore year.
And taking the subject test at the end of the year will confirm your private tuition (study). After that you’ll be done.
For your college fund, talk with your parents. What state do you live in? Outside of a handful of states, most states don’t have much state aid. Universities may offer merit aid but compared to a few years ago, these have shrunk and most are competitive (even UAlabama, which used to offer automatic full tuition for 1400sat, now only offers partial tuition for a 1490). And compared to when your parents and I went to college, there’s no more “working your way through college”. Someone calculated it’d take two years of full time work to pay for one semester of dul COA at an average public university.
FWIW, my DD was accepted last spring to an Ivy with only 3 years of Spanish. Spouse and I are not fans of the nuclear race to the “most rigorous schedule” as a mode to acceptance at an Ivy or other selective schools. She took a reasonably rigorous schedule given what opportunities were available, but skipped a couple of the possible AP/Honors options that were major time-drains in our district. This allowed her to be more well rounded with in- and out-of-school activities, which I believe was the difference.
DD chose to take another science class instead of the year 4 Spanish, because it was what interested her and she was applying to STEM majors.
^I agree with you. All in all your daughter and you adopted the saner and more effective approach to competitive admissions.
However she likely didn’t stop her language at the end of freshman year - she probably stopped at the end of junior year, which is 100% okay. For OP, the challenge is that she’s very advanced and has reached Level 3H at the end of freshman year. Stopping at the end of freshman year would be like stopping with Algebra2H at the end of 9th grade, not taking Precalc nor AP Calc when the student is clearly good at it.
OP has found a good solution though: private tutoring with someone (preferably a real teacher, not a 12th grader) throughout 10th grade, and Spanish subject test at the end. Individual language lessons, which can be easily explained since she’s gifted in the subject and can thus progress at a faster pace than in a regular classroom, makes total sense in terms of educational narrative (just like pulling the gifted kid out of HS math for them to take precalc and calc in one year through private tutoring or CC classes would make sense.)
@MYOS1634 You make a good point. My daughter dropped Spanish after sophomore year, but she was advanced one year in Spanish so her HS transcript included Spanish 1 taken in eight grade.
Honestly thank you so much for all your help. Could you message me so we can talk about this privately? Thanks
Thanks for your reply!