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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He may find it hard to fit in 4 years of language in high school along with all other HS requirements. If he is doing a high school STEM magnet, he may also be trying to fit in an internship. He might be better off starting Spanish earlier. He could take five years of Spanish, and be finished by the end of 10th grade.[/quote]

I think this is terrible advice. Colleges are not looking at your middle school transcripts, and only levels 3 and up of any World Language give high school credits. I'm presuming that, if your student's is thinking they'd be at the level of the STEM Magnet, that they want to apply for top level, competitive colleges (current admissions scandal aside), so stopping World Language after 10th grade is a bad idea. If you look at the Blair STEM course chart on their website, it lists World language for four years as the expectation, although there is an option for other electives in grades 11 and 12. Not to mention, they would not qualify for the Seal of Biliteracy with just five years of Spanish, unless they do a lot of extra study outside of school and take an outside test.[/quote]

Lots of misinformation here.  Languages classes all are on your HS transcript even if you start in 6th grade.  They all get HS credit.  My DD is a Blair SMAC student.  She took 1a in 6th (all our MS allowed) and 1b in 7th.  She will take a language all 4 years in HS (though this is not typical for a SMAC student-many stop after 4 years in 9th or 10th).  She will get to AP as a senior but only by skipping year 5. [/quote]

How was she allowed to skip level 5? I thought it was a prerequisite for the AP.[/quote]

It is allowed with teacher approval.  Apparently 4 and 5 are not very different.[/quote]

Yes, mine will try to skip Level 4 for French at Blair. Someone at DCUM tipped me off -- thanks!

But, I will add at the SMACS parent meeting, I'm pretty sure they said that some colleges look for students to take 4 years of lang during HS (not just 4 HS credits).  [/quote]

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