<p>I'm sure they acknowledge that you must have taken the first year in middle school, though. Similarly, many people get ahead in math in middle school. Do the colleges think you just jumped straight into Algebra 2/Trig? Of course they know you took Algebra 1 and Geometry in middle school.</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p>You ARE WRONG cba, IT ALL COUNTS. </p>
<p>Why wouldn't it count lol.</p>
<p>I certainly hope so. I had already completed French 2 by the time I finished middle school...</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure on the transcripts my school sends out, it includes both the Math and the Foreign Language done in Middle School. However, it doesn't include anything else.</p>
<p>I've been swaying back and forth on this issue for a couple of months...and right now I'm definitely leaning towards a 4th year. Here is the full breakdown of what happened, because I'm not sure if my first post was clear:</p>
<p>I took French 1 in Middle School, got an A- both semesters. Took French 2 in High School Freshman Year, got A- first semester, and then a B second semester. Took French 3 in Soph year, got a B+ first semester, and a solid A second semester. Then, during junior year, I didn't take any foreign language. I decided not to take it because my grades had been swaying around a bit, and I was taking 4 advanced level classes (2 APs, 2 Honors).</p>
<p>So what I'm now debating is whether or not I should jump back in and take French 4 Honors in my senior year. Another factor is right now, I'm only signed up for 2 advanced academic classes (Calc AB and English Language)...and 3 might make a serious difference.</p>
<p>Hm... well do you like French? Definitely do it if you like it, and even as long as you don't hate it, I think you should go for the extra year.</p>
<p>Besides, French is just cool :)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that any foreign language taken in middle/junior high school doesn't count towards the "count" and pretty much the only way you can't get out of not having the coveted four year language recommendation is to have a terminal class in your third year or before (i.e. AP). Nonetheless, some schools rarely use this as a comparison b/w two students (i.e. the ridiculous cliches of Student A and Student B have identical stats but one took one more year of language than the other, BOGUS 8P). So yea, good luck everyone :).</p>
<p>"High School Preparation:
High School diploma required, GED accepted
Required units:
English 4
Foreign Language 2
History 2
Math 2
Science 1
Social Studies 2" These are Georgetown requirements. These apply to highschool courses, middle school classes do not count (this is true for all top schools).</p>
<p>Maybe this is a school by school thing, but I can tell you that for my kids' school, middle school language did count. The difference was that 7th and 8th grade together counted for one year, not two. Then in 9th grade, most kids take French 2, Latin 2, whatever .... finishing up their four years of language with a language AP in 11th grade. The school strongly recommends going through that last year. Confused_student, given the courses you plan to take next year I do think it would be a good idea to take that 4th year of French, but I'd advise talking to your guidance counselor about it too. (As someone above posted, depending on where you go to college, if you haven't taken that last year of language, you might have to take language in college. When my son looked at colleges, he was surprised by how many schools required language in college.)</p>
<p>exactly, Spanish was offered in my jr. high school for 7th and 8th grade. We took 1 full yr. Spanish course in 7th and 8th grade combined. </p>
<p>Then my freshman yr. of high school, I was put into the Spanish 2 Accelerated track.</p>
<p>It should count when you think about it.</p>
<p>My middle school Spanish I class didn't count because I didn't take it in high school. I wish it had counted though, then I wouldn't be in AP Spanish at the moment....</p>
<p>But yeah, I took four years of a language because most of the schools that I applied to required it, and you don't want to be in the sort of situation where you didn't take four years of a language, so you can't apply to XYZ school. That would really stink.</p>
<p>To the OP: I didn't read through all of this, but just to let you know, my S was accepted to UMich and Columbia with only three years of foreign language. I'm not necessarily recommending this, and it definitely worried me, but he was adamant that he was not dealing with the Latin teacher again. And it worked out okay for him (though he's just finishing up four semesters of Spanish to fulfill requirements.)</p>