<p>I wanted to take all four years, but due to a few required classes that I am forced to take (in NJ students need a CFL - consumer, family, life skills elective AND a VPA - visual performing arts elective to graduate), I will be unable to take french my junior or senior year unless i drop AP Lang Comp (I love writing though). I do enjoy learning french and take an interest in it, but not nearly as much as writing (English).</p>
<p>Anyway, my question is:</p>
<p>How damaging to my applications (for college) is it if I only have 2 years of a high school language class (french)?</p>
<p>*Also, are there any other ways to convey my interest in french to colleges?</p>
<p>It depends on what the colleges you’re looking at recommend or require. 2 years is okay for some, but not for all. I am in the same type of situation of wanting to keep taking a language but my school does not offer it… so I am looking into taking at a local college or a type of independant study thing. I think taking more years of a language will definetely benefit your application. Especially if you take it on a college level, because it shows that you wanted to challenge yourself or that you are self motivated.</p>
<p>Some guy on another post said they got accepted to Duke with 2 years of FL…it depends on what class you dropped it for…since you dropped it for an AP class, it should have no bearing on admisisons.</p>
<p>Your counselor should be able to note the constraint on the form she fills in. </p>
<p>(I’m a little surprised you’re quite so constrained, though. Our school also requires a consumer class and a year of arts, and except for the IB students, kids don’t seem to have any trouble fitting that around their academic courses.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.
Although it seems it is possible to get into Duke with 2 years (thanks 1232cricket), I think it would be a good idea for me to self-study AP French and take the exam junior year, because it seems that universities value that as a 3rd and/or 4th year of a foreign language?</p>
<p>arabrab, I go to a public school that, while is very competitive (easily 50% asian population with a breakdown of ~30% Indian, ~10% Oriental, ~10% Island/South+West asian students), lacks sufficient funding and resources for higher education factors such as more AP classes (no AP Chemistry or AP Physics :/) or sufficient classrooms for our 2400+ students.
Although, I do acknowledge that it is overall a great place and that there are thousands, if not millions of schools out there that are far less fortunate. :/</p>