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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the year they take in 8th grade count towards the four?  So 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th?[/quote]

UVA is clear that they want to see four years IN HIGH SCHOOL and the language taken in MS don't count towards this recommendation.

Our DD has taken two years in MS.  I can't imagine her wanting to take AP Spanish Language but she will have to either suck it up or switch langauge in 9th.  I don't know which approach will be best for her.  [/quote]

Apologies if this is a dumb question—parent of an middle-schooler here. So is it better for kids to take a year of language in 8th grade or skip it and wait till 9th? If they start in 8th, will they top out before they can complete 4 years in HS?[/quote]

No one else has responded on this but I would be interested to hear other thoughts.

I’m a former college admissions counselor from a long time ago fwiw (though my info is outdated). I have a 9th grader who took Alg 1 in 7th and languages is just not his thing. I let him wait until 9th to start.  My current 6th grader is better at languages and likes them and he’s “only” taking honors math 7 next year. He considered taking a language in 7th and I said to both - I hear colleges want to see 4 years of lang in HS regardless of whether you take it in MS, so you might want to try other electives in 7th. I may suggest he takes a lang in 8th tho. [/quote]

My sons had Spanish in MS, but the Spanish exemption exam for their private HS placed them in Honors Spanish 1.  The teacher/class was very rigorous.  The amount of Spanish texts, fiction, non-fiction, textbooks I had to bit for level 1 was more than all other courses combined.

My youngest who is great with languages will go up to Honors Spanish 3 and then take AP Spanish Senior year. [/quote]

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