<p>Next year i am taking French I Honors. However I will also be taking an online Latin course. Can this latin cover my language requirement for college? I will take the AP Latin Exam in either Junior or Senior year, so colleges will know that it's a real course, not something that I learned nothing from.</p>
<p>The reason I want to do this is because if I didn't take French in 10-12th grades (too late to change 9th grade courses), I could take more science courses.</p>
<p>If I don't do this, I will only take Physical Science, Bio, Chem, and Physics in my four years of highschool. But I want to take more!
So what do you all think?</p>
<p>From what I gathered from your post, you would only be taking one year each of both French and Latin. Unfortunately, this won’t fulfill your foreign language requirement for college. The requirement is generally 2 or more years of a single language. There might be a random school here or there that doesn’t require they be the same language or only asks for one year, but I don’t know of any.</p>
<p>Taking a language in high school is fun, and provides a classroom experience that doesn’t change much from year to year. Chances are higher that you’ll have the same teacher and a lot of the same students in your class every year.</p>
<p>I know at my school it is recommended that you take 3 years of one language or 2 years of 2 different languages (total of 4 years). Most kids stop after the second year of one language. But I agree I don’t think you can take 1 year of 2 languages and have it count. Colleges like to see commitment when it comes to the classes you take. So they will want to see you can atleast stick to 2 years of a language.</p>
<p>^ 3 years is recommended at my school as well. We have French, Spanish, American sign language, and German, with at least three levels available in all of them. Spanish is the most popular, and there are actually 5 levels (including AP) available to students who start in 8th grade. A lot of opportunity comes with continuing on in a language. The French students at my school actually have the opportunity to go to Paris every year and I know they always have a blast!</p>
<p>If you take 3 years of the same fl in hs then some colleges will let you waive the fl requirement for some majors.
It is to your advantage to take 3 years of fl on the off chance this is your situation.
You don’t always know until you get your acceptances and choose your major.</p>
<p>It seems that most colleges have an in-house placement test that they can use to determine whether you’ve completed your language requirement (or at least a portion). I’m not sure whether they all accept latin, though, being a dead language and all.</p>
<p>Rather than mess yourself up with uncertainty and bad information, take Latin I at the local cc that your high school takes credit from so it will show up on your transcript.</p>