I found out i failed my junior year Spanish class that i took for the entire year. Learning another language was always a difficult task for me and i tried really hard to pass but ended up with a 63 which is 2 points below a passing grade. Other then Spanish i get C’s and B’s i think i have a 2.15 give or take gpa. i want to apply to colleges that require 2 years of languages at a minimum but applications for colleges go out at the beginning of my senior year. if i were to take Spanish again next year and do well on it would it be too late and they would see that red flag F for Spanish and not see that i am taking it again. i have the option to take credit recovery this summer but that will really mess up my plans i had and summer job. if it is fine if i take it next year that would be my decision over summer credit recovery because the thought of that makes me cringe.
I need to know by Thursday.
Was this your first year of foreign language, or your second? If it was your first, I think your best bet is to look for some colleges that don’t require foreign language as a prerequisite.
Well, they will see that you are retaking the course because colleges will ask you to list your senior-year course load on the application. So there are two ways to go about this. Yon can wait until the start of the regular school year and take the make-up course or buckle down and take semester one over the summer. Take semester two first semester of the regular school yea(I’m assuming this course is offered by semester). I would opt for retaking the course sooner rather than later to help boost your GPA. Regardless of how you approach this, the bad grade will still show up on your transcript, but the poor grade won’t be used to calculate your GPA. That being said, I think a 2.21 might be a little low for a four-year college. So work very hard at pulling that up. You might consider waiting until the end of the first semester of senior year before sending out applications.
If it helps, my son flunked Spanish as well and had to make it up one summer. He had to submit lots of letters and essays in Spanish and had to talk to his teacher over the phone in Spanish. He did much better (got a B I believe). So maybe with Spanish being the only course to focus on, summer might be a better time to take it.
Actually My school offers two summer simesters i can take the whole thing over the summer. i know it sounds like the better idea but its from next friday until agust 14th every week day it ruins my summer.
So i can send in my application after the first semester with the class half-way done and that will be used to determine my gpa or the one from last year.
Colleges will see that you are taking it again because when you apply you put down your planned senior schedule. And even if they admit you, they can withdraw your acceptance the summer after you graduate HS if it turns out you didn’t take (or pass) the class.
The schools that admit HS students with this gpa probably aren’t going to care too much about your grade in spanish as long as it is passing. So for all these reasons you don’t need to take it this summer.
Many students have trouble with foreign language classes. There isn’t a simple cure that turns you into a great language student but there are some things you can do. Start by getting a copy of the Michel Thomas spanish coure from your local library. They keep renaming/repackaging it, but your library will probably have the old course that is 8 hours for beginning course and another 5 hours or so for the advanced. Listen to them over the summer a couple of times (eg. start now). He does a great job of passing on an intuititive understanding of how to use the language. Second, download the Anki program. This is a spaced-repetition program, the most effective method of memorizing words. It quizes you at increasing intervals. You may find decks online to download, but don’t do that. Making your own gives you the words you care about, and making the cards is part of the process of learning them. Lastly, get the Linkword Spanish book (only available used, I think). It introduces a method for memorizing vocabulary that you can use to memorize words and gives you a start with lots of examples, which you then keep active with Anki. For example they have “The Spanish for RICE is ARROZ - Imagine ARROWS landing in your plate of RICE”. You use this to memorize, then enter “arroz” on an Anki card and “rice” on the other side.
Since this is an advice forum, one other piece of advice. If you are planning to get a higher gpa in college then you may have thoughts of “buckling down” once you start college. I suggest that you treat your senior year of HS as a trial run to see what works and what doesn’t, rather than waiting until its all on the record to make changes.