<p>I am currently a sophomore and I am taking French. I plan to take this all the way until my senior year. However, if I decide to start taking Latin for my junior and senior year, would colleges view this favorably, since I would only be getting two years of basic Latin?</p>
<p>No- it looks better to take the same language ALL FOUR YEARS.</p>
<p>Adding a second foreign language won’t help or hurt you much.</p>
<p>noel597-mNo, I mean if I take French all four years but then take Latin for my junior and senior year in addition to French. Sorry for the confusion. </p>
<p>Oh 
Um, if you really want to! I don’t think they’re going to be blow out of their seats, but taking that initiative would definitely indicate that you’re a passionate learner.</p>
<p>Take both languages if you want, if you’re looking to be a language major this will look great – if you’re say an engineering major… Then I doubt colleges would care and if I were you I’d probably pick another math course</p>
<p>yes, it does. In fact it’s considered doubling up so it may offset a less stellar performance in another subject or taking 3 instead of 4 sciences. (Check out the Stanford page in that respect, someone posted it on this website not long ago).
If you truly want to do something amazing, take Latin one on your own over the summer or go to Concordia language camps, start in Latin 2, compete Latin 3 through language camp, and finish senior year with BOTH French and Latin at level 4. Or accelerate in French and finish with AP French and Latin 3.</p>