<p>My guidance counselor recently called and told me that I have to drop Spanish 4H next year. Nothing in my schedule would work unless I dropped the spanish class. I'm going to be a junior. </p>
<p>I've talked to the spanish teachers, and they said that I wouldn't be able to do any sort of flex cred/independent study/etc so that I could advance to Spanish AP.</p>
<p>I've decided to take a Latin 1 class that was offered during my free period but I'm really stressing over how this would affect me.
Do you think colleges will care? Should I do spanish 4 in my senior year? Should I maybe attempt doing an independent study of AP spanish? Help please!</p>
<p>Don’t worry! You only need 3 years of a language to get into any school (including top). 4 is overachieving and 5 is unnecessary. You can take it senior year if need be.</p>
<p>Spanish 4 Honors during senior year is no good. By not taking it junior year, you’re going to lose almost all verbal communication skills and a large chunk of grammar and vocabulary. Plus, you wouldn’t be able to take AP (and taking AP at the same time is not a wise idea in my opinion) afterwards, so if you’re doing it to get 4 years and look good for college, that’s moot.</p>
<p>Honestly, I would do anything in my power to work Spanish in there. There isn’t a non-honors version you can take?</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Maybe Harvard and Yale are a different story but Stanford, and a few others definitely only say 3 and I don’t think that it matters too horribly much unless you’re going for communications major.</p>
<p>fwiw, my sister was forced to choose between Spanish 4H and AP Physics her senior year, and chose physics. She was accepted to literally every college she applied to (Princeton, Stanford, Miami, WashU, etc), with only three years of a foreign language. I’m think that there’s a comments section on the CommonApp to deal with that? I’m not sure tbh, but she just finished up her first year at Princeton :)</p>
<p>@benf; OP would only have 2 years if they ended up doing the same thing.</p>
<p>I mean, OP COULD take Spanish senior year but given the trouble this year, the chances of that could be slim, plus taking a year off from FL is one of the worst things ever. Trust me, I took a class where we weren’t required to speak Spanish and all of my oral skills are completely gone.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the OP’s district handles transcripts and all, but I’m assuming that the reason that he’s (or at least would be) able to take Sp. 4 is because he took a level in middle school. Which, in my experience, would mean that he still gets credit for it. Thus; 3 years.</p>
<p>No plain Spanish 4? That’s awful. I’m so sorry. :(</p>
<p>I wonder what exactly ‘high school spanish’ is ?_?, we have different course progressions at my school for people who are new to a language (starting at Spanish I and working their way up to IV by senior year) and to most incoming freshman with at least 4 years like me (start at III/III Advanced and take 4 more years). </p>
<p>Sometimes I wish everything was equal, but that would take away pretty much every reason why I love my school.</p>
<p>I hope your schedule and everything else will work out for you. :c</p>