<p>My daughter is in 10th grade, and she is currently taking Chinese 7. In her school, if you want to do IB, you will have to take Chinese A2 next year, which will be way too difficult. If she switches to French for grade 11 and 12, will it hurt her since most elite schools require foreign language study in the same language?</p>
<p>I doubt it if she’s taken 7 years of Chinese! If anything, it will show that she’s willing to branch out from her comfort zone and delve into new languages/cultures.</p>
<p>I know most schools would want like 4 straight years of French than 2 of French, 1 Spanish, 1 Japanese. I don’t know about if you already have 7…</p>
<p>She’s taken five years of Chinese, but skipped two in between. She also has the option to keep Chinese into 8 and 9 if she decides to go with AP. We are debating whether she should pick a second language instead, and wonder how it will look on her college app.</p>
<p>Best is for her to continue her study of Chinese. Depth is extremely important in language study, and especially the level of depth that takes the student into fluent reading of the literature of that language.</p>
<p>That she would have difficulty with the Chinese required for the IB is surprising to me. But I’m sure you know best, and then the option of Chinese 7/8 is the way to go. I find the numbering confusing in that I can’t easily translate them to the normal high school curriculum of Language 1 = first year, etc. Perhaps you can clarify.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback. She is in a private school with Chinese offered in middle school also, that’s why she is already at 7. It will go up to 8, or they have the option to take IB. However, I myself find the jump from 7 to IB A is way too much, they are basically two different tracks, one is for heritage speaker, the other for non-heritage. However, their school will not allow them to go from 7 to IB B.</p>