<p>My son is currently taking IB Spanish SL. He has earned A's and B's in spanish over the years. Spanish is his hardest and most time consuming class. He wants 4 years of Spanish and really does not want to take the 2nd year of the IB Spanish.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with this? Should he just stick with it and plan on taking Spanish next year to finish the IB Spanish? Should he see if he can switch to Spanish 4? We are afraid if he does not take the second year of the IB Spanish that it will look bad?</p>
<p>If he was planning on completing the Diploma and the only thing standing in his way is Spanish, I recommend he stick with it. Besides the level of rigor the Diploma indicates, he may be able to test out of Spanish in college either by taking the AP test or by taking a school’s own placement test. </p>
<p>My brother, currently an eighth grader, was also considering dropping language ASAP. But I recommended that he stick with it throughout high school for the college reason I cited above. HS language is much less difficult than college language, unless your S takes beginner language courses, and getting it out of the way now seems to me a much smarter idea for the language-phobic student.</p>
<p>I took IB Spanish SL junior year, and I won’t be taking any HL language next year. (Spanish was my SL test.) </p>
<p>If you’re more interested in science, you’re going to want to take more science classes. I took Bio HL (in addition to the IB Diploma 4HL/2SL requirement) instead of Spanish HL. </p>
<p>I expect adcoms to see this is as a positive action instead of a negative one - because it IS - I’m not dropping spanish, I’m just taking more biology because I’m more interested in it.</p>
<p>edit: Some colleges/programs don’t require languages, categorizing them under humanities. Also, SL is in concept enough for the AP Spanish test, but good luck with that, if you’re not very good at it - I just avoided the test and 6’d the SL. Sadly SL is not accepted in most colleges.</p>