<p>My D’s Jr. High did not offer the language she desperately wanted to learn, and shuttling her to the HS that did offer this particular language was not an option for us. D did not take any language in 9th grade, then during the summer before her sophomore year she took a college-level intensive language course at a local language academy. She was placed in Language 2 with the rest of 10th graders and ended up with an A-. Her official transcript listed only 3 years of HS language up to the highest level offered by the school, and she did not have any problems with college admissions language requirements (it also helped that she applied to colleges that were very familiar with her HS).</p>