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[quote=Anonymous]"Thank you everyone.
I appreciate the advice. As I mentioned earlier since he is a junior, he does not have a firm list of schools he wants to apply to but since he is interested in a liberal arts education and is likely to have a few top 20 schools on his list, I went ahead and looked at the common data set for a few of these and half recommend 4 years although I don't think any require 4 years.
I did raise the prospect of taking the AP exam in the Spring after taking Spanish 5 but he was horrified - he is finding Spanish stressful and taking an AP exam without having taken the course would add to the stress he says. He says he is now ok with taking AP Spanish next year but he is not happy about it. He is a straight A student who does not shirk from hard work so I don't think this is laziness. For some reason he finds the class stressful. I have offered to find him a tutor if necessary."

I think someone mentioned this but I wanted to highlight it.

If DS really doesn't like Spanish, or even if he is just done with it, then his goal should be TO NOT HAVE TO TAKE SPANISH IN COLLEGE.

Many liberal arts schools are going to want him to take Spanish in college.

Even if he wants a STEM major in a SLAC their distribution requirements might require 2 years of Foreign Language.

Look up distribution requirements at potential schools.

His best bet to avoid taking Spanish in college is to take AP Spanish next year and get a 5 on the test.

That just might be enough to avoid taking 2 or 3 semesters of Spanish in college where each semester is as hard as a year in HS.
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