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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd go with Spanish 4 for now. You can always talk with someone at the high school about changing that (if necessary), and the middle school teacher may also have a sense of what would be the best fit.

Another thing to thing about long-term is college admissions. If your child might be considering highly selective colleges, they tend to prefer 3-4 years of world language during high school. So not much point to rush to do AP language in 9th grade and then be penalized for having only one year of a foreign language.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you, I think she is selective college material! But is 4 years really necessary if you reach the AP level in the language, if the student wants to free up periods for other AP courses, or high-level topics?

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Colleges want courses completed in high school, not just middle school. A student who does Calculus in 8th grade would be expected to find ways of continuing with math through high school. Same goes for foreign languages.

Harvard, for instance, recommends "four years of a single foreign language" in high school. If a student completes AP foreign language in 9th, that's just one year (instead of the ideal of four), so they'll wonder why she didn't start a new language in 10th grade. If a student completes AP foreign language in 11th grade, that's three years taken in high school, and there's not much time to make progress in a new language, so they'd understand more why a student didn't do a foreign language senior year.[/quote]

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