Foreign Language

Applying to College
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<p>Hello,
I am currently taking German I as a freshman in High School but I do not like our teacher. She doesn't teach us anything and gives us random quizzes that I get low A's on. However, she didn't prepare us at all for our Midterm. On it, I got the second highest grade in the class and it was a 71. I am normally an A student and have A's in all my other classes so this was quite a shock. </p>

<p>My problem is that I went to a small private school in 7th grade and took Latin I. Then, after switching to public school, only Spanish and French were available so I chose Spanish. Now I am in German and hate the teacher. I really don't want to go back to Spanish II after a year off.</p>

<p>I have heard that colleges like consecutive years of a language? I am considering dropping German II next year and instead taking AP Statistics as a sophmore instead. Any input on this idea?</p>

<p>Thanks,
David</p>

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<p>It depends on what schools you’re looking at and what they recommend. In general, yes, selective schools want to see consecutive years of the same language.</p>

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<p>Well all of the schools I am interested in are engineering or technology schools, the service academies in particular, and I was thinking that for an engineering school, 7 math credits (1 Alg I, 1 Alg II, 1 Geom, 1 Pre-Calc, 1 AP Calc I, 1 AP Calc II, and 1 AP Stats) might outweigh the 2 years of a foreign language. I will have 3 foriegn language credits at the end of this year so I have fulfilled the requirement but I am just wondering is it really worth it to take the extra year of German?
David</p>