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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We will let you know. My son only went through Spanish 4 (in 8th through 11th grades), and he applied EA to the College of Engineering this fall.[/quote]

He took a foreign language his junior year. OP’s kid doesn’t want to take one after sophomore year. That’s different.[/quote]

This is the OP.  My child also went through Spanish IV - only difference was that they completed Spanish 4 in 10th Grade (7th-10th grades).[/quote]

I understand that. But whether they admit it or not colleges, including UVA, give less weight to language courses taken in middle school than high school.

Look, you are going to get all kinds of responses. You are going to get folks jumping in and saying they have kids who got in without taking a foreign language for four years in high school. That’s great. That doesn’t change the fact that majority do take a foreign language all four years and that UVA make it clear that that is the option that they prefer.  Those are the facts.  Allow anecdotes that differ to sway your opinion at your own risk.

When my kids were in high school and considering UVA, none of them had any interest whatsoever in stem. That did not stop them from taking four years of math and science up to and through the AP level. They did that because they knew that UVA wanted to see that kind of a transcript. It makes no difference that the student is interested in stem and wants to forego non-stem high school classes.  [/quote]

I hear you, and I think I am reaching the unfortunate conclusion that they will need to take two more years of Spanish in order to be competitive, but I find the whole thing ridiculous because they took two years of language in middle school while others did not.  It is not quite the same thing as math, social studies, science, and language arts - all middle schoolers had to take these core subjects but they did not have to take a foreign language in 7th and 8th grade.  My child chose to take a foreign language in addition to their other core classes in middle school and should be given credit for doing so.[/quote]

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