<p>Currently in spanish 4, I'm deciding whether taking an extra year is worth it. I heard taking 5 years really makes you stand out but i dont really know if that's true.</p>
<p>Thanks for your answers</p>
<p>It depends on which schools you’re applying to. Many applicants to highly selective colleges will have started in middle school and will complete 4 yrs + AP, or whatever their HSs sequence is.</p>
<p>Level 5 in high school may help you place into a higher level course of that language in college (based on being able to do better on the college’s language placement test), if you wish to continue study in that language.</p>
<p>As entomom said, a fifth year of a language is good, but it’s far from extraordinary. Consider that your school probably has both French V and Spanish V. Now consider that your school is one of about 37,000 high schools in the U.S. (I made an assumption. Are you American?) That works out to a lot of seniors taking a fifth year of a language.</p>
<p>That having been said, it’s a high level (for high school) class in an academic subject. As long as you can do well in it, how can such a thing be bad?</p>
<p>My school allows you to take Spanish V as well. I would suggest that if your not going to take an AP class (and get a good score) then I would not take Spanish V (we have a Spanish V Honors class at my school). The only exception would be if you want to major in Spanish and your school does not offer an AP class.</p>