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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My older kids took Russian and I absolutely think it helped them with college admissions.  It's a very difficult language and always considered one of the "critical" languages for national security.  That said, my youngest took French through AP level and that didn't seem to hurt her acceptances.  I think they mainly want to see commitment to one language through at least the 4th yr.[/quote]

Curious about the 4 years. DC took freshman Spanish 1 in 8th grade and is in Spanish 4 honors.  At this point DC would prefer to take a different AP course next year (psychology or economics).

The guidance counselor thinks going through Spanish 4 qualifies as 4 years, but the guidance department is not always on top of things…[/quote]

Advice from two schools for two kids recently, one of which was TJ. You need to continue all core classes all 4 years, unless you run out of classes to take (ie, take AP Spanish junior year and there is not post-AP offered). You can stop a core class senior year IF you replace it with something equally rigorous and the class you take makes sense in the context of your transcript and application. Foe example, a strong STEM kid taking an extra AP science. I actually had a kid not take science senior year (honors bio, chem and physics) to take a second AP foreign language. No issues with college admissions. [/quote]

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