Foreign Language Senior year

I am a senior in high school and I have tooken my required two years of a foreign language (spanish) and I want to take Spanish 3 honors but my school doesnt offer it. Should I take French 1? Or should I just stop at Spanish 2?

Changing language at senior does not help anything. The college would typically look for the highest level of the SAME language you have taken. Having 2 years of a world language would be the minimal requirement for most schools. You do need 3 or more years to be competitive for some top schools.

But my school doesn’t offer a higher level spanish

OP’s other posts indicate a HS GPA in the low 3.x range, and targets of large state universities. It is rather likely that meeting whatever the specified minimum requirements are at each such university is enough, except perhaps at the very borderline.

If your high school does not offer any level 3 foreign language, then the best you can show is level 2, unless you can take a more advanced course at a local college or have provable (through standardized testing that is accepted by the universities in question) higher level knowledge of some language (perhaps as a heritage speaker).

If your school does not offer it, they would not hold you accountable on not taking it. You should be fine disregarding what schools you are applying to.

Just curious is French hard

@ucbalumnus I am taking the SAT subject test in Spanish

if you want to, you could ask your guidance counselor if it would be possible to do dual enrollment and take it at your local CC. If not, you have taken the highest level your HS offers and you can ask your GC if they include that info in what they send to colleges.

When I took HS french, being a native speaker of Spanish, many things in French were easy (latin rooted language) the hard part was the spelling. I kept spelling everything in Spanish.

It’s a bit harder the Spanish, IMO. Spanish is pretty much pronounced as it’s written; French has a lot of silent letters and a lot of accents. It’s still easier than Chinese. :slight_smile:

You might want to rethink that. 2 years might not give you enough preparation.

Oh ok