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[quote=Anonymous]There are really two parts to your question OP: can DC have one free period senior year and can DC stop taking Spanish short of AP?  As others have said, the best source of guidance on this will be your HS counselor, who presumably can give you as sense of the past experience of students there who did one or both.

FWIW, my DC (different DMV school district) took only 6 classes  and no world language senior year and got into multiple T25 schools, including UVA.  However, they did take AP world language junior year, and our sense from consuming a lot of Dean J info was that reaching AP/IB level in all 5 core subjects (that includes World Language) was strongly desired by UVA's admissions office.  She made clear that it wasn't essential, but it's highly likely that your DC will at least slightly, perhaps significantly, lessen their chances at UVA without AP Spanish.  Hard to know which other top schools feel that strongly, especially those for which your DC isn't competing against more than half of their classmates.

On the other hand, if taking AP Spanish means that your DC will truly spend their last year of HS and your last year living full time in the same house miserable and they will get a lousy grade and perhaps lower grades in other courses, you/they have to ask yourselves whether it's really worth them being miserable just to increase -- but in no way ensure -- their chances of getting into one or more schools.[/quote]

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