Spanish 3 didn’t fit into my schedule at school and all of the Spanish teachers at my school suck (I didn’t learn anything in Spanish 2), so this year I was trying to take Spanish 3 honors through my online school provider. I faced severe complications with getting into the course over the summer due to a teacher’s incompetency. I got into the course finally in mid August, but now I’ve been withdrawn because my teacher is on vacation all week and I’m unable to complete a welcome call with her. This is hardly my fault, but her fault that she’s taking a whole week off (and she did the same thing two weeks ago).
With all this frustration with Spanish 3, I have two options: I can try to re-enroll in the course, hopefully get a different teacher, and be on my merry way, or I can just forget about Spanish altogether. Im not sure if I’ll even be allowed to try to re-enroll, since I was withdrawn… I’m worried how colleges will see dropping Spanish after level 2, but I’m just so frustrated with the online Spanish system and teachers.
What colleges are you aiming for?
Sometimes won’t consider your application without at least level 3. Others will be fine.
Note that there often is a foreign language graduation requirement in college too.
If I were you I’d complain to the online provider about this teacher.
Do our live near a community college where you could take college Spanish 2+3? (high 1+2= college 1).
If I were you, I honestly wouldn’t take it. It seems like you aren’t interested in furthering ahead in Spanish, so I wouldn’t waste a class period on something I’m not interested in. I think most high schools require just 2 years of foreign language, so you’re all set. Colleges will care depending on what you’re majoring in. To put it in short, if you’re majoring in language/writing related fields, colleges would like to see 3/4 years of FL. It also depends on the college you’re looking to attend. Ivy’s and other elite colleges like to see around 3/4 years of FL while local and state universities don’t usually put FL at the top of their list. Hope I helped!
My dream colleges at the moment are Cornell and Wheaton college (IL). Other than that and state uni’s, I don’t know which colleges I’ll be applying to (I’m only a sophomore rn). I want to go into some sort of engineering. I’m really not interested in Spanish and would only be taking it for colleges. And my dad speaks Spanish so I could learn from him at home if I wanted to…
“I could learn it at home”… but the point is that you haven’t.
(If you stop at level 2 with a Spanish speaking parent at home, it’ll be even worse because it shows lack of curiosity, not just for other cultures, but for your own heritage.)
You need to reach level 3 for Wheaton, and level 4 for Cornell.
What you CAN do is take Level 3 through Concordia Language Village (= fun!) and then take Level 4 junior year. OR, Take College Level 2 and 3 and be done in two semesters.
Colleges like Wheaton IL (good academically and strongly conservative evangelical Christian) include Pepperdine, Calvin, Hope, Point Loma, Wofford.
Colleges like Cornell (elite engineering) include Rose Hulman, Harvey Mudd, Olin, Case Western, NYU Tandon, plus probably your state flagship.
I guess the best path for me at this point then is to try the online class once more. You have really good points @MYOS1634 My local CC doesn’t offer dual enrollment until junior year, so I’ll probably forget what little Spanish I learned in Spanish 2 by then. Otherwise, I’d really like to go the CC route.
So it’s agreed that I need to try to get a 3rd year of Spanish?
You should try, yes .
But if you could take Spanish at a community college next year you could look into the Concordia language village program, see if your parents can afford it. You wouldn’t take Spanish this year, would take Level 3 over the summer at Concordia Language Village, and then College level 2+3 at the community college junior year, and be done.
