I think it’s getting to level 4 that matters. My D23 took 2 years of French in middle school, which together were the equivalent of French 1 in HS. So she started in French 2 in 9th grade (no honors option that year), and then the next step was French 3/4 H in 10th grade - two years condensed into one, and then AP in 11th grade. No language in 12th grade, because nothing higher than that was offered, but she’d already gotten to the 5th level of French (if we’re counting AP as level 5). She applied to a number of selective schools (<20% admit rates) that state a preference for 4 years of a foreign language, and she got into several, so I’m assuming they were counting level achieved of foreign language rather than a raw number of years in HS.
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