<p>Does anyone know if students are allowed to take two languages simultaneously? I've been looking at Andover's, SPS', and Deerfield's website and I couldn't find anything about it.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I thought you said you wanted all of your threads to sink to the bottom so it didn't hurt your chances of acceptance?</p>
<p>wth.</p>
<p>That's not what I said. I was asking a question. Mind your own business.</p>
<p>Yes you can. In fact if you are in one of the classics programs such as at St. Mark's, it is a requirement. Why don't you check out the SMS classics program for the million time. Is the name not big enough? Hey, it's a great school!</p>
<p>By the way, I have no allegiance to SMS. In fact I have never met anyone who has ever applied. Check it out</p>
<p>JK, actually check out the Middlesex classics program, they have some very fine teachers in the language dept.</p>
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<p>In the "accpetance letter' thread...</p>
<p>Gosh! I envy all of you. Prep school, top LACS, 4.0 GPA's, etc., etc. What I would have given to be in all of your shoes. You are all so lucky! I am finding this thread quite amusing. Now little ol' me, of non-traditional college age, contemplating a return to school and have had no luck with my McBride Scholar at Bryn Mawr college question.</p>
<p>At Andover, you could work your schedule so that two languages would be possible.</p>
<p>As bigblue said it is possible at Andover, but you will have to give up other things. I think that is true with most prep schools as well. You have to work your way around the requirements, but I know a couple kids who took 3 languages their senior year. It becomes much easier to squeeze in another language as you get older.</p>
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<p>I'm not really interested in the classics. I want to learn Spanish and French during high school, then self study Modern Greek.</p>
<p>I took two languages at Exeter during my senior year. I can't speak for other schools, but here it is for Exeter: it's possible, but not for all four years. I know a guy who took two languages for two years, but he dropped science after sophomore year.
If you really are interested in a language, don't want to drop classes, can handle the extra work, and get permission, you can take a sixth course, in this case the second language not for credit. You learn the language, but you don't receive a grade for it, receive no absenses if you don't show up, and don't have to do the homework/tests/papers if you don't want to. Most likely they'd guide you away from auditing a course during your first year, though.</p>
<p>Hope that clears at least some part of it up.</p>
<p>Yes, it did. Thank you.</p>
<p>i thought greek and latin were the classics...can anyone specify for me?</p>
<p>I know Choate lets you take multiple languages, im pretty sure the other schools do too</p>
<p>Latin and Ancient Greek are the Classics. Many boarding schools offer Classics diplomas to students who complete 4th-year Latin and 1st year Greek.</p>
<p>JK, why is everyone telling you about all the classical honour programs when you have no interest.............???????????? I type this with kindness.</p>
<p>At exeter you have to take 5 classes, no more no less, though you can "audit" another class for no credit (after your first year, you will have the free time to do so--although conceivably if you skipped enough levels of things in 9th grade you could do so then too). Fun, right? What's better is that let's say you wanted to audit spanish while you did french... you could do that until you reached spanish 200 level-spanish, then actually take that course (audit some other elective instead) and suddenly on your transcript would be "200 level spanish!" obviously explained by the fact that you were auditting). A lot of people audit Arabic senior year.</p>
<p>Now, as for 2 languages generally: it's quite possible, but you have to really want to do it. You would be doing so by limiting some of your other possibilities in terms of electives just because it would be taking up lots of time--intro lang courses meet 5 times a week. A friend of mine decided to do russian, took classes at tel aviv U over xmas break, came back and jumped into it and did it. It's possible, but you'll find yourself limited--same at any of these schools.</p>
<p>Greek and latin are very common together in order to get a "classical diploma" but those don't usually overlap for the entire time you're at exeter.</p>
<p>Yeah.. about the classics thing.</p>
<p>I'm not really interested in it. I like modern languages better. I hope that I can take Spanish for credit, and French as an extra course with no credit. Or the other way around. I'm not sure yet.</p>
<p>So it isn't possible to take two foreign languages for credit?</p>
<p>I only discussed the Classics because ILuvAs asked about it. Even though I realize you're not particularly interested, Jonathan K., I thought other people reading the board might like to know. But back to modern languages:</p>
<p>You can take two foreign languages for credit, but you won't have four full years of each. There are requirements for other subject areas that get in the way of that, plus only being able to take five classes a term for credit. You can get to 400-level with two modern languages, however, if you can place out of a year or two of one language(perhaps by taking an intensive course over the summer before a placement test in the fall).</p>