<p>My daughter chose to take 3 years of Spanish, 1 year of Latin and 1 year of French. It's too late now, but since I have two other daughters coming up I thought I'd ask: is taking only 3 years of one language along with other languages looked at differently as someone that chose to take 4 or even 5 years of one language?</p>
<p>I don’t think the amount or distribution of a student’s language studies will make or break their application. I was able to get admitted to UVA (IS) with just three years of high school Latin. I didn’t even take AP level Latin.</p>
<p>That said, it is important to note that the college does have a foreign language requirement. Satisfying this requirement equates to roughly completing an AP course in a foreign language (usually the 4th year of study in high school). If your daughters are not interested in studying a foreign language in college, it’s best that they spend all their efforts in high school on one language so they can either completely or partially test out of the requirement by the time college rolls around. The consequence of not doing so is sitting through 14 credits of German (or another language) over four semesters like I did. And believe me, there are better, more interesting classes to take out there than intro level language courses. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>