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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP.  Thanks for the input.  [b]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.[/b]  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]

This is completely not true.  I have had three kids over the last 12 years all take four years of Latin in high school.  Not only did it fulfill the language requirements of all the colleges they applied to (one went to an Ivy and the other two went to top LACs), the feedback from the admissions people is that they really liked seeing the Latin on kids transcripts, for all the reasons stated earlier.  All my kids took another language in college and found it easy to learn, which is the experience of most people who take Latin. Also, all three said it really helped their writing and organization skills in college. I am not advocating taking Latin because it may boost one's SAT scores or attractiveness for college admissions.  But there are clear and well documented benefits of taking any language in depth, especially if it is a language they want to take.[/quote]

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