My school’s programs are elective based, so there’s no more college level track and most of the programs academically are about the same. The only difference between each program is it’s elective is in favor of what you want to major in.
I’m sorry for the misunderstandings and I didn’t respond to any of the questions due to me falling asleep.
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Being eligible for EOP/Heop would make Penn State an impossibility. EOP/HEOP indicates high financial need (ie., you’re low income, your efc is close to zero) whereas Penn State expects OOS applicants to be able to pay 45k a year.
If you’re not eligible for EOP/HEOP, you won’t get a pass on foreign language.
Does your school include any “academy” whee the elective is foreign language?
Yeah my school does have other academies that offers foreign language.
How big is your school (total number of students) and how many foreign language teachers do you have
My school has about 2000+ students and I’m not sure but I would say about 2 to 8 foreign language teachers
How many academies in your building. Do they each operate as a separate school having its own director or person in charge with one principal. You can’t have 2 to 8 foreign language teachers. Are you saying that there are 4 academies and 2 teachers per academy. That would be one teacher per 250 students.
Each teacher can only teach a max of 170 students. When you think about tgat there are approx 100 freshmen in each academy who needs foreign language, that leVes 70 sears per teacher if you have kids that must repeat Spanish you may only have approx 1.5 classes where a teacher can teach higher level foreign language.
Does your school have advisory? If yes does every teacher teach advisory it has advisers? That will also rake away from the teaching power.
There’s 8 academies in my school and each academy isn’t operated as a different School. I’m not sure about how many foreign language teachers my school has I was just taking a guess since I have only seen 3 foreign language teachers in the 2 years I was at this school. Additionally some teachers cross teach academies.
Your school seems unique to me but why don’t you just email the regional guidance counselor that represents your district from each of the schools you noted. They live and understand your NY school district and the requirements. But the issue here is not what is the minimum to graduate high school. No selective type school will settle for the minimum whether it’s a language or math etc. Selective type schools want you to Excell and exceed the minimum for the most part.
If you are a great student in all other area’s and this is the outlier but your in a unique program, that could make your profile interesting but for a lot of schools if they have a requirement, they are not going to change that just for you. Not when 10,000 others students that have the right requirements are fighting for that spot…
If OP is looking for a spot at a SUNY they’re competing with the kids whose families just became eligible for the Excelsior Grant (free tuition for families earning up to $125k). Some SUNY branches have been difficult to get admitted to for awhile, but admission to other campuses is becoming increasingly difficult. There are very few I’d consider a safety anymore.