<p>perhaps it does depend on the school, theoneo.</p>
<p>It's no different than taking advanced math in middle school -- it still counts as Math 1++. Indeed, the UC's make that clear on their apps.</p>
<p>Hmm, how many years would my education be?</p>
<p>Spanish I: 8th grade
Spanish II: 9th grade
Spanish III: summer after 9th
Spanish IV (AP equiv): summer after 10th</p>
<p>summer school taken at outside private school (shows on transcript).</p>
<p>took advanced classes in Computor Science instead of spanish with a 5 on the AP exam. Plan on taking AP statistics senior year. Interested in applying to top schools.</p>
<p>i am about to go into latin 4 but i skipped latin 2 and went into latin 3. but the latin program in our school is atrocious and i would be replacing my language with ap gov. so im replacing it with a harder ap course. according to some posts thats better right?</p>
<p>I have a question..
I'm doing the full IB Diploma, and at our school, only Spanish SL is offered through the AP/IB Spanish IV class (I plan to take both exams during my upcoming junior year). The next level, however, is Honors Spanish V, not AP/IB. I would take the class, but my schedule is completely full for the next two years. </p>
<p>Junior year: AP/IB==English, American History, Spanish IV, AB Calc
AP Bio, TOK I, and Academic Decathlon (thus, I have no room<br>
for the elective core for the diploma)</p>
<p>Senior year: AP/IB=English Lit, BC Calc, and EnviroSci
IB Bio (separated from AP, for some reason) IB modern world, TOK II and for the IB Diploma, an SL elective, of which I've chosen Theater (now some people might fulfill the 6th core area with another science, but the only IB science at our school is Bio), and lastly, AcaDeca.</p>
<p>The question I'm asking is, should I still take Spanish V? because, I could always not take EnviroSci, and still have 4 years of both language and science..although the envirosci is AP, so would colleges look more favorably at more AP classes?</p>
<p>Another question in topic: If I would all of a sudden take French IV in Junior year without any previous courses and finish it, would I still be recognized as taking "four years" of language although I didn't take three years officially?</p>
<p>How many of us would like to take a high quality summer language program, if it was good enough to make up for waht we missed in the past, or get us a head start for next year?</p>
<p>Schools count Latin as a foriegn language right? Because after taking both for three years, I'm dropping Spanish for my senior year.</p>
<p>Hi, next year I'll be a freshman and I want to double up in both math in science, so my projected course would be :</p>
<p>Algebra II (Hn)
AP Calculus AB
Civics and Economics (Hn)
English I (Hn)
Biology (Hn)
Chemistry (Hn)</p>
<p>I really want to take two of math and science because it will get me ahead and those two things are my main passions and what interest me most. Should I take away one of the doubled classes in order to take Latin I or another language? Which schedule would be better?</p>
<p>Chaos.</p>
<p>I'd drop AP Calc and add a language. (You will need all of Algebra II to do well in Calculus, Taking them concurrently is not a good idea.)</p>
<p>I agree with NotReady4Purple about dropping AP Calc. It is very difficult to take 2 math classes at once and you should start a foreign language early.</p>
<p>For any highly competitive university or LAC, 4 years (or to highest offered) are ideal. Unless if you're very much an engineering/mathematics type.</p>
<p>Personally I think that 3 years is enought especially with a strong schedule of other classes.</p>
<p>I am only taking 3 years of FL, but i will also have 6 yrs of hard science, 4 years of hard math, 2 years of comp sci (which is a language in itself), 4 years of eng, and 4 years of history/required social science.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips guys! Should I change my courses to:
Algebra II Hn.
Latin I Hn.
English I Hn.
Biology Hn.
Chemistry Hn.
Civis and Economics Hn.</p>
<p>Does that sound more reasonable? Make Math/Science seem a bit lopsided though...</p>
<p>alright so i guess, i'll give my own dilemma here while we're at it.
i'm hispanic, but i found kind of pointless to take spanish, so i've been learning french. i just took french ap language and got a 3 on the ap and a 750 on the sat. since i had a free period i decided to fill it up with spanish language ap, and of course i got a 5 and an 800. so the point is that my school offers ap french literature, i was planning on taking it but then again my intended major is bioengineering and i have yet to take ap bio...so the question is should i stop taking french and double in sciences? ap physics and ap bio? given that my intended major is engineering, bioengineering.</p>
<p>if you take one ap language you are in fine shape for ivys and other top colleges. im pretty sure its a requirement to go to level 4 of a language (equal to 4 years) at all ivys. if you have 2 or 3 they may say you dont meet their requirements course wize (like how you need english all 4 years and math all 4 years). however, there are always exceptions but for the run of the mill applicant, it looks best to max out a language, but you can take 3 years if you get to ap level or level 4 of the language. also, dont switch languages (doesnt look as good as taking one)</p>
<p>orbitgum, you dont need to do annother year of french if you apply to engineering schools or engineering specific programs. if you apply to arts and sciences programs, or schools that dont have different admissions from engineering and arts and sciences (stanford, harvard, princeton) ap french will help.</p>
<p>i already have four years of french, 8th grade counted as one.</p>
<p>4...shows commitment and that ure taking a wide variety of courses</p>
<p>i dont believe many colleges especially ivy league colleges require a set number of years of foreign language. Even Harvard simply "strongly recommends" 4 years. They won't reject you for having 3 or 2 years.</p>
<p>If you had a chance, which foreign language would you pick?
i) French
ii) Latin
iii) German
iv) Spanish</p>
<p>Please, also state why.</p>
<p>Thanks, I need help on picking a language. I personally think Latin or German would be interesting, especially because I heard the former helps on the SAT, but my parents think otherwise, and encourage me to take Spanish or French. So I need help picking one out.
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Depends on what would be more useful to you. Where we live there is a HUGE hispanic population and it grows and grows every day. Our hospitals and schools are swelling with some who can speak English and many who can not. They shop, they work, they are a part of life and "he who is bilingual, gets the job". So, in that case, Spanish is your choice. </p>
<p>A latin course would help with SAT, but two years might be overkill. </p>
<p>And for international business - Chinese is the up and coming language. </p>
<p>For government relations, Arabic. </p>
<p>(not that those last two were on your list....)</p>