<p>I have a question related to this:</p>
<p>What if I stopped taking Spanish after my sophomore year, but I was in Spanish 4 that year (took Spanish I & II before HS, so I was taking III as a freshman)? Will that be looked down upon? I dropped it to take AP Statistics and Honors Cisco I/II as my electives, so I wasn't lessening my courseload by dropping it.</p>
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Don't feed him all that crap. Those class recommendations that say 3 or 4 years of a language are simply RECOMMENDATIONS.
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<p>Consider them strong recommendations. I mean, if given the choice of everything you can do to strengthen your application, shouldn't you do it?</p>
<p>You're going to take a foreign language later, might as well do it now.</p>
<p>My counselers say all the better. I took 3 as a freshmen as well, and will be done with AP Lang tomorrow. Next year, all of the people in my class are either taking French 1 (Actually one is passing into AP french, but shes from quebec) or taking AP Spanish Literature. </p>
<p>I'm not taking it simply because I would have 6 AP classes if I did take it (5 if I decide not to take AP World Hist. as well)</p>
<p>So, I will probabally do french 1 next year. 4 years of everything, and then i doubled up on science at one point.</p>
<p>I talked to several admissions officials about this. They said that even though it is not required at least two, and the reccomended of 3 years (which most schools are turning to) of foreign language should be taken. I can't remeber who, I think it was an interviewer, she told me that foreign language applicants are looked upon as more intelligent because of their language skills</p>
<p>Working with adcoms and listening to them, part of what made my own application stronger was the fact that I had two foreign languages under my belt.</p>