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Andover2015
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:38:28 +0000

Outoftheweather,
I am also a rising 11th grader at Andover, and have been at the school for both 9th and 10th grade. As for your question about the stress of taking two languages, it depends on how you do it. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong,) but I think that the first year a student can easily incorporate a second foreign language into his schedule is 11th grade. What most students who choose to do this have to do is take US History Senior Year instead of Upper Year (11th grade). In other words, you would replace US History with a second language. This would probably be the least stressful way to take two languages. If you really don’t want to postpone history, you could take six courses instead of five and sacrifice your free period, but that would probably be extremely stressful (especially because upper year is already notoriously difficult)