<p>I began taking french in 9th grade and planned to continue that all four years I was in high school. My junior year I was in my third year of french but after the first semester I moved schools. The school I moved to at the time only offered up to french 2 so my new counselor placed me in the class for no credit. For this year, my senior year, the school is offering French 3, which I am taking. </p>
<p>To make things even more complicated, my old school (because I was in the Pre-IB/IB program) labeled the classes higher/more advanced on my transcript like:
1st year french = French 1/2
2nd year french = French 3
3rd year french = French 4</p>
<p>How should I explain this situation on my college applications (should I just have my counselor explain it), or should I even explain it at all? Some of the colleges I am thinking about applying to recommend 4 years in the same language. Technically, I have been taking french for 4 years but I'll have only taken classes up to french 3. So how will colleges look at this?</p>
<p>Usually, colleges are more concerned with the level attained, although colleges will understand if you only completed level 3 because that is the highest level available in your high school.</p>
<p>When you were in the non-credit French 2 course at your current high school, did it seem like they were teaching stuff you learned in the “French 1/2” course in your old high school? Or stuff you learned in the “French 3” course in your old high school?</p>
<p>The class was actually using the same book that my old school did. But even though they used the same book I did for my second year of french, it was more stuff I had leaned my first year (French 1/2)</p>
<p>You may want to try to figure out (perhaps in consultation with the French teacher) whether French 3 at your current school will teach anything new that you have not already learned in French 3 at your old school.</p>
<p>Sounds like a non-issue. Your GC can explain it, but it’s so minor, it’s not losing sleep over. The 4 language years are ‘recommended’ not required, you sound like you met the requirement in any case and if you didn’t, it was because your school couldn’t do it, and frankly, this is of very, very low priority compared to your grades, test scores, recommendations, ECs etc…</p>