<p>I'm a junior and I'm considering switching schools next year because I currently take Korean 2; however, my current high school doesn't offer Korean 3/4. Is it worth it to switch schools? If I do switch schools, the new school offers Korean 3/4 as 2 credits, meaning I would have Korean double blocked (Is that even the right way to phrase it? haha). Honestly, Korean is important to me but I also want to know if switching schools will hurt me more than help.</p>
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<p>What?!? I think the drawbacks would outweigh the benefits.
Can you take it at a local college?</p>
<p>I’m considering transfering to another school in my county too. 
My guidance counselor said, since the other school is in the same county, my schedule will not be messed up and it should be an easy transfer.</p>
<p>I’m transferring because I don’t feel as if the school I’m currently at now is sufficient for my ethnicity needs, social needs, athletic needs, and academic needs.</p>
<p>I’m weighing the consequences. Pro-Con list. Hopefully somebody here can diverge from the main topic and help me out too.</p>
<p>As for YOUR post, if you have lots of friends at your school now, I definitely wouldn’t recommend transferring just for a LANGUAGE class. I hear colleges like if you take a couple language classes, but, ultimately, it isn’t the biggest thing they look up. Of course, as my guidance counselor told me, colleges won’t be like “oh look, he / she’s not faithful to her school. We mustn’t accept here”. The decision to transfer will mostly impact your social statuses, rather than academic, so long as your transcripts, core classes, and grades are kept up to par. :)</p>
<p>There might be some issues with teacher recommendations (new teachers) and class rank. Those things aren’t that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, but transferring for a single class seems silly.</p>
<p>When switching high schools, the biggest issue is GPA calculation and class ranking. If you are a top student (top 10%), how one school calculates GPA or whether they weigh honors and APs could make a difference when you are applying top tier schools. I would strongly suggest for you to have a discussion with the new school GC on how they would normalize your transcript before you transfer.</p>
<p>My younger kid transferred junior year. She went to a top private school in the US before she transferred to an international school. She didn’t get credit for a lot of honor courses she took because the new school had a different curriculum. </p>
<p>I personally think it is an over kill to transfer to a new high school senior year over a language course. Pay for a tutor or take it at a local college.</p>
<p>Yes, you’ll also need to consider LORs for college application. Who would you ask?</p>
<p>Oh well, I guess I’ll be staying at my current school. I’m just thinking that colleges will look at my transcript and think, “… sooo… Korean 2? That’s it?” I’m also thinking that I’ll be taking some random electives next year instead of Korean and that won’t look good either.
I’m definitely top 10% though so I guess there’s more benefits to staying. However, the new school is in the same county so my classes and grad requirements are still the same. I don’t care much for social status; I care more about teacher recs and EC’s and the three years that my GC got to know me. I do feel a bit sad though because I really enjoyed Korean and I’ve made some really close friends in that class. </p>
<p>@eding97 I don’t really know what your school is like but I felt the same way about my school during freshman year. My school is somewhat of a joke within the county. We haven’t been renovated once and continuously rank somewhere in the bottom 3 in for the county. All the smart, athletic, and rich kids try to avoid my school. I was really mad about it but I’ve learned to live with it and I’ve even made friends who I can genuinely connect with. However, if you suffer both on the academic end and the social end, then maybe it’s better for you to switch schools. Especially if you feel like you can’t be happy at your current school as a senior. I’m assuming you’re a junior? c:</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask your current Korean teacher and counselor if you can continue Korean as an independent study? I wanted to take AP Economics, but my school only has regular economics so I asked the teacher if I could do an Independent Study. A friend is doing the same thing with AP Physics C. Unless your teacher is completely unreasonable, she’ll probably be open to the idea. That way you can continue Korean without the hassle of finding an online course or driving to a local CC, and you can remain in your own high school.</p>
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<p>If that’s all your school offers, that’s all they expect. </p>
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<p>Couldn’t you take an academic class in another subject? Again, all they expect is that you take the most (or close to the most) challenging schedule possible at your school.</p>
<p>Hi there!</p>
<p>I wouldn’t switch schools over a language class. It’s a little extreme, haha. If there are options to take it online, I would try to work something out with your counselor and maybe Korean 3 can still appear on your transcript. If not, why not try out another language? </p>
<p>Besides, you’ll be starting over during the final year of high school. Are you sure you want to leave everything behind for one class? </p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>