<p>I am currently a sophomore in high school and am in Spanish III (I took Spanish II as a freshman). I am having a terrible time in spanish this year and am not doing well at all. I work harder in spanish than in any of my other classes, yet am still unable to get higher than a 60 on my tests. (regardless of that fact that I am studying up to two hours a night and finding less time to devote to the other classes that I am doing well in) I have always been bad at spanish and was tested for a learning disorder a few months ago. The counselor told me that, with the way my brain works, I will never be good with languages and that I process things quite slowly. I am in the A/B+ range in all of my other classes and barely hanging onto a C/C- in Spanish. (I go to a pretty prestigious, all girls prep school). I was curious if it would look terrible to colleges for me to have only two years of Spanish and two years of Latin. I feel as though it would look better for me to do well in my two years of Latin than to have the recommended three years of spanish, but barely scrape by with a C-.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice? Should I listen to my school and continue spanish because colleges will like that I stick with it or should I switch to Latin which could possibly lower my chances of getting into any colleges of my choice? Any advice would be so so great!! Thanks!</p>
<p>"The counselor told me that, with the way my brain works, I will never be good with languages and that I process things quite slowly"
You should take to your guidance counselor and ask him if he would be willing to mention in his recommendations letter your LD and it's impact on your ability to learn languages, as a way of explaining your decision to stop spanish after 2 years. If he is OK with this, then drop the Spanish. If you are a good reader, I think you would find Latin to be fairly easy, and because relatively few students take Latin, it would help nulify the effect of taking only 2 years of Spanish. Depending on the level of colleges you are hoping to apply to, you may need only 3 yrs of Foreign Language, though 4 years is always optimum. I doubt very highly you would be penalized for taking 2 different languages, but long term, you need to be aware of different college graduation requirements, becase many LA colleges require you to study a language. There is another current thread about this very issue
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/469716-colleges-universities-no-foreign-language-requirements.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/469716-colleges-universities-no-foreign-language-requirements.html</a></p>