<p>I've been taking the most vigorous classes offered at my high school and has a 3.97 unweighted GPA (only 1 B freshmen year), had two APs my junior year, plan to take at least 2 maybe 4 senior year, but I've also aided for 3 semesters and didn't take a 3rd year of Spanish.</p>
<p>1) How important is a 3rd year of foreign language and should I take it my senior year?
2) How much will the aiding hurt me in college admissions?</p>
<p>LOL @vigorous classes. </p>
<p>I'd say go with the 3rd of language, it's certainly better than two. If you have scheduling difficulties I suggest you take a course online. And for #2 I don't think it'll hurt you that much but I'm not sure what "aiding" is.</p>
<p>Aiding is pretty much an open period, like helping the teacher correct papers and stuff. I know it might not as vigorous as your workload, I'm sure that most people have taken more than 2 APs, but I also took one PreAP, and two dual credit/advanced classes.</p>
<p>No, no, no, sorry for miscommunicating, that was NOT what I meant at all...it was just that "vigorous classes", the phrase sounded really funny. Sorry...LOL.</p>
<p>Um, no, yours is perfectly vigorous, and the level of it depends on each school, and such, mine isn't all that really top-notch either with like 8 AP's per year.</p>
<p>Aiding will not hurt you, how can HELPING the teacher HURT you?</p>
<p>you should def take the 3rd year of foreign language. my cousin who just finished her freshman year at syracuse had to fulfill a language requirement but she had dropped spanish after her sophomore year in high school. she hadn't even heard the language in three years, so it made passing the class extremely difficult. plus it'll show involvement</p>
<p>lol i think most people use the word "rigorous"</p>
<p>No, helping the teacher is great and all but you're really not doing any work and I thought colleges will think you're slacking when you could be taking a real class. It's a pass/fail credit, you're sleeping like half the time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input nvilla and invoyable</p>
<p>haha, that's what I meant, that's why I only got a 580 on my writing SAT......</p>
<p>bump.......has anyone else been a student aide before? what schools look down at that?</p>