<p>Besides Spanish I have straight A's. Freshmen year I got a B and a C in Spanish and Sophomore year I got a B- and a B. This semester Junior year I am veering very close (meaning I have a 77 right now, midterms in January) into C territory. My extracurriculars are very good, and dropping Spanish would make my life so much easier. Is it worth it? I'm going to apply to some of the more competitive California colleges like the UC's (I know you can't have less then a C and go to one of those", the Claremonts and my super reach Stanford. Should I drop it or not? I could fill it with a college class if I drop it? </p>
<p>Also I took French 1 and French 2 in middle school, if that changes anything.</p>
<p>UC only requires 2 years of a foreign language. For schools like Stanford and Claremont that recommend 3+ years, two years of 1 language will not make you a competitive applicant. Even if they consider middle school courses, 2 years of 2 languages is seen as weaker preparation than 3-4 years of one language.</p>
<p>Not true in the least. I was accepted to Stanford with two years of one language.</p>
<p>^You are also Questbridge. The OP did not ask if having 2 years of Spanish would be an automatic reject; s/he asked if it would make him/her less competitive. My opinion remains the same.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback.
Follow up question, would having a bad grade in just one subject hurt my chances really badly?</p>
<p>normally it wouldn’t, but just as a precaution I dont think Stanford has ever accepted a student with a C in the class without there being a tremendously horrendous circumstance that caused it( Death of relative…) so dont hope for stanford</p>
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<p>On both the Stanford and the UC website it does say that they don’t look at freshmen year grades, and that C was in freshmen year. I’m not saying I’m gonna get in to any of these schools because of that, but it does give me an Angstrom of hope.</p>
<p>Hope is usually measured in Mass (or sometimes volume), not usually Length (perhaps a Dram of hope?).</p>
<p>I would drop the course and make it up with a community college course, so that you have 3 years of a single language. You could take it senior year, but that would just be the same movie over again, wouldn’t it? Or you could take it Senior Year at community college in the evenings, instead of Community College next semester or summer.</p>
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Without proof, (which I doubt is forthcoming), I would not put much stock in the advice of someone who is not an admissions officer at Stanford, but has 16 posts and has been active here for 12 days.</p>