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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS had the option to take Latin in 9th grade.   We decided go the modern language route as he already had one year of Spanish under his belt going into high school.  [b]The issue with Latin is that some colleges do not accept that as a language requiremen[/b]t, so if you want to go to a college with this stipulation, you would need to take another three years of a modern language.[/quote]

Such colleges and universities are not worth consideration.[/quote]

21:51 here.  I wholeheartedly agree that any college that wouldn't accept Latin as a foreign language requirement is not worth consideration.  How absurd.  Now, I have heard of programs requiring you to be able to read/comprehend certain modern languages because source documentation is so frequently in one of those languages.  Many Classical graduate programs require you have knowledge of French, German and/or Italian.  I learned all three (although my spoken French is poor, my reading of it is good).

But, it's one thing to require a [i]particular[/i] language for college admission, it's completely different to exclude Latin because it is not a modern language.  Appalling.[/quote]

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