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Is this absolute?  My kid took 4 years of a less popular language (only 10 kids in the class at level 4). The teacher was the only one who taught the subject.  During COVID, the teacher had a mental breakdown, to the point where admin became involved and the teacher disappeared the last few weeks of the year. Kid dropped the language after that; there was no acceptable path to continue with the teacher.

There was really no good way to explain this in an application. It’s going to look like kid didn’t pursue AP, but it’s obviously more nuanced than that. [/quote]

I am not sure about the UVA application for rising college freshman because our kid didn't apply there but he is now working on his transfer application and there is a section to explain extenuating circumstances regarding high school courses.  In his case, his excellent foreign language teacher became seriously ill during his second year and wound up leaving the school.  The next year, the replacement teacher taught a combined third/fourth year class and basically advised them they should not continue with the language.[/quote]

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