<p>DD is currently a junior, and considering dropping her current language after taking it as a honors course her sophomore year, and replacing it with a newly offered language for junior and senior years. She would then have 3 years of the first language, 2 of the second. Is this a bad idea?</p>
<p>Schools like Yale prefer that students complete the high school’s sequence in a single foreign language. Can your D take the 4th year of her current language this year, then take up the new language next year?</p>
<p>Yes, but it would mean one less AP for senior year. Her school strictly limits the number of core classes that the kids can take. She is, however, talking about going to non-honors level of the current language if she stays with it which worries me as well. Is it better to complete the 4 years, even if the 4th year is non-honors?</p>
<p>I think it would be better to complete the sequence at the non-honors level than to switch languages without completing the sequence. Perhaps others will weigh in.</p>
<p>since we’re on the topic of foreign language, how would Yale view AP Spanish and AP German by Junior year, and then French 3 by the end of senior year? Would the addition of French be a waste of time? Languages interest me, but my intended major is in biological anthropology… so I dunno. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Yale and similar schools want to see sustained effort in a single language. That sustained effort, to and thru the 4th year in high school, is far more important than whether the language is AP. Switching from one language to another is a red flag.</p>
<p>^agreed!!
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