<p>Does this work? If you meet the miminum high school requirement for hs graduation with one language can you start with a different language in college? Will a level 1 language course fulfill the requirement in a liberal arts program?</p>
<p>Our daughter is considering switching from French to Spanish and taking a level 1 course at a community college this summer. How can I tell if this is a good or bad idea?</p>
<p>She's met her graduation requirement and most of the colleges she's looking at only require 2 years, although it seems they would be happy with more.</p>
<p>Your daughter can start a new language whenever she likes to.
However, the summer course at the community college will most likely not fulfill the distribution requirement at most colleges unless it is a really intensive course (e.g. with 4 hours of classroom time per day throughout the summer) or she continues to take Spanish at high school until she can score 600+ on the Spanish SAT (for example, Bryn Mawr College requires an SAT of 690 to fulfill the language requirement).</p>
<p>If your daughter just wants to get her distribution requirements out of the way, I would suggest taking another year of French at high school and taking the SAT II in French.</p>
<p>If she really wants to learn Spanish though, why should she not start studying Spanish even though she might end up having to take another semester of Spanish at college?</p>
<p>She really doesn't want to learn Spanish. He's awful at foreign languages and will end up doing just the minimum to fulfill requirements. The class she's looking at is a standard 4 credit college level class - Spanish 1. It doesn't look like this cc will be offering French any more. They have offered it and no one registered so it was cancelled. </p>
<p>She's still young enough that it may make more sense to wait until she starts college and look at taking this course during a summer break. We were hoping to have her get it out of the way but since colleges vary so much it may not be an option.</p>
<p>When starting a language from scratch, all colleges I am aware of require at least two semesters (at college level) to fulfill the language requirement.</p>