How Hard is Spanish 3 and do Colleges really care for it?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>First of all Spanish 3 is an Honors Course while Spanish 1 and 2 weren't even though they felt like it.</p>

<p>I don't know it seems in my school everyone stops after 2, I barely know any kids who go to 3,4, and AP usually only the top kids do, or the kids who have a Spanish background, oh and a large Brazilian population who know portuguese.
Well how hard is Spanish 3? In my school Spanish 3 is the first time it's Honors, even though 2 was pretty tough and it was like an Honors course (with pretty hard tests, prjoects, tons of homework and classwork) and we had a pretty low average with few due to the touch teacher. Well I have always gotten A's in Spanish every time in high school and on the exams I also got A's, and it surprises me when I see what I get on the Exam since I didn't think I knew it that well and it had no curve on it. I guess I did though. I always ended in the class with a 94 twice, 95 first quarter, and one other quarter I got a 92 or 93. In Spanish 2, except for one Funny thing is though I don't know like anyone got an A on the Spanish 2 exam in my class besides me and 2 girls in my class of 35. :P</p>

<p>Well I got the same teacher, and he said he will speak spanish more in class while teaching than he did in spanish 2, but not as much as he would in 4 and AP. Kinda scares me because I forgot some, and he didn't give us a review over the summer for the kids going into 3. I think if I look in my old workbook there might be a list of vocab and grammar in the back. Lucky I didn't throw it out with the rest of the students.
Just wondering how much harder it is than 2? </p>

<p>We're using the book "Avancemos", anyone use that for Spanish 3? We used it for 1 and 2 also. Just wondering on the rigor.</p>

<p>My friend took it last year he got a C first quarter and this dude never got a grade lower than an A in his life, but then he got an A in it quarter 2-4. So maybe he forgot some during quarter 1?
Also, do top colleges really care if you do Spanish 3? Maybe the reason kids don't take it in my school is because they all go to Florida schools except the top percentage. </p>

<p>I was just wondering if I should drop it because I'm taking 4 AP's and 3 Honor courses including this class and I don't want to hurt my GPA :p</p>

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<p>Most good schools these days strongly recommend three years of language, if not requiring them, so yeah, I think you should take it (: everyone at my school, even the lesser achieving kids, all go up to IV/AP (AP is for the “more achieving kids” haha) when it comes to their second language. and of all of hs courses, Spanish won’t lower your gpa because maybe this is my opinion, but spanish is something you can build up on from the years you’ve had before, and it’s not like you’re at AP level yet so it won’t necessarily be as hard as ap bio or something haha</p>

<p>hope that helped somewhat =/</p>

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<p>Lol my class this year is half the size of my Spanish 2 you would think it’s AP.</p>

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<p>Bump…
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<p>At my school they don’t use that book for Spanish 3. The regular Spanish 3 course was harder than Spanish 1 and 2, from what I heard, but not so hard that everyone failed. The Spanish 3 Honors course was really Spanish 4 in disguise and was much harder because it involved literature. </p>

<p>So, if you’re doing grammar only then you should be fine. If you’re also doing literature for Spanish 3 then things might be harder.</p>

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<p>Spanish 3 H is a lot harder than 1 and 2 at my school. I’m taking it right now and the main difference is that there is a lot more spanish in the classroom. We do more oral presentations.</p>

<p>And colleges do care. Top colleges want to see three or four years of commitment to a foreign language.</p>

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<p>^Forgot about that. Spanish 3 H did have oral presentations…And half-way through we started speaking (for the most part) all Spanish. Regular Spanish 3 didn’t do either thing, so I guess…yeah.</p>