Tested out of Spanish

Does testing out of 2/5 Spanish classes look bad, as I only took foreign language my freshman and sophomore year? It seems that some schools want you to stay in foreign language throughout all or 3/4 of your high school career, but there were no other Spanish classes for me to take after Spanish V (AP Spanish Literature and Culture).

The sequence went as follows:
-Pre-AP Spanish I (8th grade)
-AP Spanish Language and Culture [or IV for native speakers, as my school calls it (9th grade)]
-AP Spanish Literature and Culture [V at my school (10th grade)]

not at all

What colleges are you aiming for?
If you’re a heritage/native speaker, top colleges (think top 25 national universities and LACs) will expect you to have studied a FOREIGN language.
Did you take the AP test last year, or will you be taking it this year?
The ideal would be for you to take the AP Spanish test and either continue past this at a nearby college, reaching an advanced level by senior year, OR try and accelerate in another foreign language to reach Level 3 senior year.
If you’re applying for selective universities outside the top 50, you’re very, very fine :slight_smile: and will get lots of credit to boot. For the Top 50 but not top 25 ones, there shouldn’t be a problem.

I took the test last year. I just wanted to finish all of the available Spanish classes at my high school since the other foreign languages have either teachers that do not teach, give only vocabulary sheets that don’t help, or both. And my schedule is already full with my required tech and fine arts credits, and my senior one is full of AP and an EMT course.

How did you test out? Native speaker or did you learn it through a program like Rosetta Stone? If so, I would recommend to maybe do 1 or 2 dual-enrollment language classes. You could do French, Latin, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, German, etc.

I do not think it looks “bad” that you tested out, but it looks like you’ve “skipped” a lot in a way. It’s not like you took Spanish I, II, and III and skipped to AP Spanish or Spanish II, III and then AP Spanish.

Yeah, as a native speaker. It’s too late to do anything about it now, as my senior schedule has been decided and it’s full of AP classes that aren’t languages.

I just wanted to know whether it was too bad. I didn’t want to take classes where the teachers didn’t teach well or at all (the only other classes offered are French and German, where the teachers are pretty bad). Dual enrollment is only available for us for Spanish as well.

You can dual-enroll through a local CC online to take a language if it isn’t offered at your school and that particular high school does not offer the class.