I’m a freshman in high school, and I am currently taking Chinese 2. My school offers Chinese 3, Chinese 4, and Chinese AP. My Chinese teacher told me I should take Chinese 4 next year, then Chinese AP junior year.
Will this hurt my chances since it is only 3 years of foreign language? I am Chinese so I have a speaking advantage over everybody else, and I didn’t consider this before signing up for the class. Now I have to sign up for classes soon, and I don’t know what to pick.
I think it would be better if you talk to the teacher about it.
I don’t think this would hurt your chances. Colleges like to see what level of a language you got to, so it wouldn’t be necessary to take an extra year as long as you could do well in Chinese 4 and AP Chinese.
What matters to colleges is level reached. So if you get to AP level, you’ll be considered as having level 5.
Do some online Chinese 4 work and see if you can handle it or borrow the textbook from your school library to see.
No, it will not hurt your chances. If you reach the highest level of a language, no college will hold it against you that you didn’t take what’s not offered.
Thanks for the advice, everybody! People at my school tell me I have to do four years, so I was confused.
Level completed is usually what matters.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1802227-faq-foreign-language.html
You have to reach level 4. AP is level 5. If you complete level 5 you’re over the level that’s required. It doesn’t matter if it took you only three years to get there.