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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP.  Thanks for the input.  Upon further investigation, I found that although Latin would be recognized as the language requirements for HS, it likely will not be recognized by most universities.  So Spanish it is next year.  Then sophomore year we may look at Latin as an elective.  Both DS and DH want Latin...but I am trying to be practical.  If he skips Spanish this year, he will lose ground on the two years of HS spanish he had already completed in middle school.[/quote]

OP ,there are many good reasons to pick one language or the other noted in various posts above, but college language requirements are not one of them.  My DC's small high school Latin class as a group earned admission to most selective colleges compared to the group of students who studies Spanish or other romance languages at their school.  Latin today is taught as a combination of language, history, poetry, literature and political theory -- it is like taking a language class and a course in classics at the same time.  I would have never expected this, but my DC fell in love with it and it propelled him in ways I never had imagined.  And if for some reason he attends a college with an additional language requirement -- which he would know in advance and I am sure could avoid if he wants -- he'll learn another language in college by choice. 
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