I am a junior right now in French 4. My school doesn’t have an AP French or a French 5. I have two options: either to take a directed study with my French teacher or take a class at a local community college. Taking a college class would be an inconvenience, as I would have to drop two classes (the college class would be in the morning, which would take away two class periods). But I know a college class would look good on my app, and it would be more rigorous than my usual French classes.
Please give some advice.
Would the college class be a college level 4 (202) class?
How many periods per day do you have?
Would you still be able to get your other core classes (English, Math, Science, Social Science)? Can you take another class at the CC to make “worthwhile”, perhaps in the same slot on the other days (ie., if the class is MWF at 11:30, take another 11.30 T-Th class)
I think the college class I would take depends on where I place on the placement exam; I haven’t taken it.
I have four periods MWF and three periods on TTh. I’m not sure if it will affect my core classes, since the class periods are being worked out for each period.
Not quite sure if I can take another cc class. I would take the college class on a scholarship (which I believe works only for one class).
Ok, that works - I thought you might have a typical HS schedule with the same schedule every day, so you’d miss two periods every day - but if the HS has the same system as a college (MWF/TTh) then it’s good.
Check to see whether you get the scholarship just for one class or for more, and if you would be missing on any core core class because of the CC class. If you’d miss on core classes, taking the directed study is better. If you wouldn’t, then taking the CC class is better;