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[quote=Anonymous]As others have said, there is no consistent answer across schools.

Absent that, the most reliable guidance seems to be that highly selective schools (e.g. UVA) want students to take the most challenging classes available to the student across English, History, Science, Math, and Foreign Language.

For many/most students, that means four years of FL; for some, that means only two or three if they max out (generally with an AP class) earlier.

There does not seem to be any credible indication that a student who maxes out via an AP class junior year needs to start a new language senior year—again, because the issue isn’t “four years”; it’s achieving highest possible rigor (and presumably the student will take another challenging class in FL’s place senior year).

There are certainly students who don’t max out on rigor and quit FL earlier in HS who still get into highly selective schools; presumably, because of some combination of area of interest and compensatory rigor in other areas etc. [/quote]

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