<p>Hi, I am a sophomore. I took Spanish 1 / 2 last year. My teacher was terrible, and half way through the year she got pregnant. She had to leave and we had a even worse sub for a whole semester. I never really got the base of Spanish, but I got an A both semesters. </p>
<p>This year I am taking Spanish 3 / 4 Honors. The first semester I barely scraped by with a B. This semester I have a C+. My homework grades and project grades are all As, but my test grade is a D. Spanish is extremely hard for me, especially since I never really got the base.</p>
<p>My counselor said for college you should really take 3 years of the same language. Here are my options: What should I do?</p>
<p>1) Take Spanish 5 / 6 regular and just work really hard and not take that hard of a workload. My mom knows Spanish and helps me a lot, but even though, it would be really hard. The 5 / 6 teacher is known to be really boring and really hard. Getting a D average on tests this year shows that I don't know the material.</p>
<p>2) Take French 1 / 2 or Chinese 1 / 2 and explain when I apply to colleges what happened my first year of Spanish. The problem is I am not really interested in any of those languages, and would actually like to learn Spanish, but not just without knowing much this year, and being with a boring and hard teacher next year.</p>
<p>3) Take an elective like photography and explain what happened my first year.</p>
<p>4) I tried asking if I could take an online course, but they wouldn't let me. But I can take Spanish at my local community college. Actually they said I can do an online course at a UC or Santa Monica Community College. Do any of those offer online Spanish courses?</p>
<p>5) Can I independently study it with my mom or something?</p>
<p>What should I do? What are the consequences of not taking the third year? Should I really suffer through another year? I plan to go to like a middle tier UC.</p>
<p>Please help!</p>
<p>I would really like to learn Spanish, but it’s that I am so far behind barely passing any of my tests, and having to do lots of work. The homework is weighted a lot, so that’s why I can still get a decent grade. My mom helps me will all my work because I can’t do it. </p>
<p>Can someone please, what should I do?</p>
<p>Why not take an online spanish review course to brush up/review the early stuff that you missed (nobody can not let you do this - you just might not get high school credit, but you can still tell colleges you took the class/send a transcript) so that next year you will be better-prepared? that seems like the best solution</p>
<p>Personally, I’d do 5/6 next year. Spanish 6 would look good on apps..</p>
<p>Spanish 5 / 6 is just saying year three. Each number counts as a semester.</p>
<p>Taking an online course during the summer probably isn’t a bad idea. What I would probably do is get the book. The book for 3 / 4 is the same for 5 / 6, they just split the book in half. Then, during the summer I can just review it with my mom. So far that sounds like the best option.</p>
<p>You can really enhance your chances by taking 5 academic classes every year. Two years of language is probably ok for a mid-tier UC, but do not replace an academic class with photography. But, my recommendation would be to repeat this semester to raise your C. Can you retake it at your HS this summer, and then take 5/6 College Prep (non-honors)?</p>
<p>No, I can’t retake it during the summer. </p>
<p>Right now this is my schedule for next year:</p>
<p>-AP Chem
-US History Honors (Known at my school to be almost as hard as AP)
-English Honors
-Spanish 5 / 6
-Statistics (I am taking pre calc this year, and didn’t do very well and we only have AP Calculus, which is known to be super hard)
-Virtual Business
-Tennis</p>
<p>This year my schedule was very rigorous. I took 4 honors classes and pre calc, which is a more of a junior math class. So my GPA is kind of low, so next year I’m making my course load not that rigorous so I can up my GPA and focus on tennis so I can make varsity.</p>
<p>While we’re talking about this? Does any see any changes that I should make in my schedule overall? Like maybe taking calc, or to take another AP, or switch some things around?</p>
<p>if virtual business is not an UC-approved a-g course, there is no admissions value to taking it, and I would drop it. Can you take AP Stats instead of regular Stat? (Stats only requires a strong algebra background.)</p>
<p>On the doorways for UC, virtual business is listed there under the g elective. So I guess that counts? Plus our virtual business team is the best in CA, so it will look good.</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t offer AP Stats. I wanted to take it online, but as I said earlier, they don’t allow that. Maybe I could take something like that at community college?</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your help. More advice would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>its really not terrible</p>
<p>its really not terrible</p>
<p>What are you talking about???</p>
<p>More advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Anyone have any more advice?</p>
<p>Dropping a course because there’s no “admissions value” to it? Please, I hope you’re not listening to this horrible advice. There is no reason for you to drop a legitimate course which you enjoy for a course that you feel you will fail. You have taken the equivalent of 4 years in spanish. That is enough to appease most colleges, and is what the majority of competitive college applicants will complete. I would not take Spanish 5/6. One extra course is not going to make you “admissions gold” and if you’re going to struggle and do poorly, that’s even more reason not to take it.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I’m sort of in the same situation too, except I’m a junior. I took Spanish 1 in 8th grade and Spanish 2 in 9th, then dropped it for the past 2 years to take CLASSES I ENJOY. I really suck at foreign languages. Anyway, since I didn’t waste precious schedule hours in a stupid class that I don’t enjoy, I was able to rise to the rank of Editor-in-chief of our school newspaper, no easy feat, because I took newspaper for 2 years. I think that pretty much beats any silly little Spanish groupie.</p>
<p>But I still have to deal with the fact that the foreign language part of my application is a bit lacking, so I’m taking spanish for adv. beginners (equiv. of spanish 3/4) at my local CC this fall on saturdays or maybe evenings, and I’ll probably take the SAT II Spanish to prove my skills as well. So this summer I have a lot of review to do. There are many things you can do to get your foreign language req. in without changing your schedule/making yourself miserable.</p>
<p>Cool. </p>
<p>Oh, and Princess, as I said earlier, I have only done 2 years of Spanish. 1 / 2 = 1 year. 3 / 4 = 1 year. My school goes by semesters for a weird reason, so if I don’t do another year I wont’ make the reccomended years.</p>
<p>The last SPanish test I recieved back was another F…</p>
<p>I am seriously considering not taking it, someone please tell me what i should do!!</p>
<p>if youre going to a middle tier UC, I say that 2 should be fine. I say take like for year if you aim for Cal or UCLA.</p>