2 years of high school language

sbjdorlo
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:17:14 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend my son’s path, but it worked out ok. He only took one semester of community college foreign language (worth two years of high school here in California). He was accepted to some good schools including one Ivy and two UCs, but he definitely took a chance by doing it that way. And as a matter of fact, on his original transcript, he had planned to take a second semester at the college in spring of senior year, but he hated it so much, I let him drop it and risk admissions. It worked out ok.

OTOH, he did have reasons why he didn’t do language (he had a hearing loss in one ear, had surgery and a hearing aid fitted in junior year, so we just didn’t even think about foreign language until senior year) sort of. I don’t know how much that factored into colleges’ decisions.