@kaitlynw2000:
Take the Latin subject test as soon as it’s offered, many universities grant credit or at least recognition for a good score.
You can also start a new language - any chance you could take classes via Florida Virtual Public School? Spanish 1 now (your Latin would help), then Spanish 2 over the summer (along with HOPE, as many students do), then Spanish 3 during junior year, and that + Latin, you’d be good for any university.
Start prepping for the ACT and that Latin subject test.
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She’ll really do best to concentrate on getting top grades/scores while at her FL public and then taking advantage of Bright Futures and hope to get into UF which gives great aid to lowish income instate students…
IF her grades/test scores are high enough, she can also focus on schools that promise to “meet need” but if she has a non-custodial parent who won’t help with college, then those may not work either.
Kaitlyn, becoming an OT is fine, but understand the income isn’t high enough to withstand much debt. You need to avoid undergrad debt as much as possible, because you’ll have debt for grad school. You don’t want to be drowning in debt and unable to pay your rent and food.
That’s great news. It’s been quite disturbing to read posts from many seniors who have been scrambling to figure this all out in the last couple of weeks. Kaitlyn has time to devise a solid plan, both educationally and financially.
You can only receive high school credit for foreign language (Spanish) in NYS if you take the Spanish proficiency exam in the 8th grade before leaving middle school (you cannot receive proficiency credit in high school). Otherwise NYS does not offer credit by exam in foreign language. While you may have taken the exam recently and got a good score, you will not be able to get credit by passing the proficiency exam.
other options are if you lived in a non-english speaking country after age 11 where you could receive up to 2 credits for each year of residence.
Look online for a college class for Latin, preferably one that is a combo 101 and 102 class (sometimes numbered 103) and after you complete it, you get 6 credits.
If one has to go to OOS OT program, it could be expensive. Just like many professional programs, there is a line of students waiting to get in and willing to pay the tuition costs.
