<p>Next year, as an officer for a club, I have to take a business class. However, I have to drop one my classes for that business class. I'm taking 3 APs and the other ones are English, Band, and Spanish. Should I drop Spanish for the business class or quit being an officer. Btw, the officer position requires working with community on teaching a middle school about business.</p>
<p>bump ten char</p>
<p>Take Spanish. Spanish will do you much more good in the long run than any community service will.</p>
<p>Have you considered dropping band instead?</p>
<p>ive considered it but i really like band. btw, the community service isn't just community service. it requires a planned business curriculum that culminates in a final report and competition at the state and possibly national level.</p>
<p>Are you a junior, senior, or an "'06 grad"? How much is Spanish used in your community? What are your post-hs aspirations - state school, local LAC, elite college? What sort of career interests you?</p>
<p>im gonna be a junior, sorry for the misleading name, and im interested in business.</p>
<p>im interested in berkeley's business program and possibly UPenn</p>
<p>For that level of selective university, I think you need 5 solid academic classes. If you could skip a year of Spanish, possibly by taking private classes, then go into AP Spanish senior year, you might be ok, but that's a big commitment in time and money. I think you have to choose between band and the business leadership. Could you still play in a band without taking it as a class - a side group at hs, or a community group?</p>
<p>so my history, math, science, lit classes dont really matter if i dont have five classes?</p>
<p>Take spanish as colleges like to see 3 to 4 years of foreign language. In addition it could end up helping you to meet your foreign language requirement when you get to college.</p>
<p>Do what you want to do. I know I couldn't stand another year of For Lang past the required two at my high school. So painful and boring...</p>
<p>i have 3 years, would it hurt to stop?</p>
<p>I see no point in even taking a foreign language if you're going to half ass it to 3 years. Seriously.. You should do at least 5 years (counting the middle school year) or more if you have block schedule but most people don't. That's how you get noticed by colleges and later on employers though.</p>
<p>You wrote:
"so my history, math, science, lit classes dont really matter if i dont have five classes?"</p>
<p>Did I say that?</p>
<p>You asked for a curriculum evaluation in order to apply successfully to highly selective schools. Business classes and Band are not considered as rigorous as academic classes.</p>
<p>is it ok to stop for one year and skip spanish 4 and go on to spanish 5? cuz our school doesn't have great teachers. our spanish 4 teacher literally teaches no spanish; he just shows movies in spanish a lot. so most ppl in spanish 4 go on to spanish 5 with the experience equal to not taking spanish for a year.</p>
<p>You need solid recommendation for that.</p>
<p>Or maybe they'd have you test it out.</p>
<p>If you can, I'd suggest you to do that.</p>
<p>Drop Spanish.</p>