Chance Me: Great Rank, Not so Great SAT

Dont take both Ap World and AP euro. Choose one.

Take Spanish 3. Even for your safeties it’ll be useful.
If Spanish 3 doesn’t fit into your schedule:
See if you can take Spanish 1 at a local CC this summer for a quick review; then CC Spanish 2 in the Fall. College Spanish 1 covers high school 1+2, college Spanish 2 covers HS Level 3, that would meet most colleges minimum expectations, and depending on whether you get into your ED college it may be worth it to take CC LEVEL 3 if it’s offered.

Btw Level 4 is the expectations at your matches and reaches, with AP level common. Some students may have taken only one year in HS but passed the AP exam then, in 9th grade. You can of course start a new world language from scratch (Korean, French, Swahili…) but it’s very time intensive and difficult.

Just to give you an example from one of your safeties:
At Penn state, most applicants have reached level 3 or 4. The Level 3 students automatically place into College Spanish 2 Fall freshman year and continue to Spanish 3 in the Spring. That class is 4 credits and each class period requires 2 1/2 hours of work (so, 8-10 hours of hw) that you can’t easily get out of because there’s an online lab that clocks your time and records what you do or don’t do. Participation (=attendance with active listening and speaking) is a big part of your grade, too.
So, most students want to place as high as possible, ie, have reached HSlevel 4 and place into College level 3, or AP and place into 201 or 202.

With HS Spanish 2, you automatically place into College Spanish 2, too. Except you’re nowhere near as prepared as students who had HS Spanish 3 more recently. You can go back to Spanish 1 upon instructor permission, generally after getting a D on your first test, hopefully before the end of drop/add or you’re stuck with 4 credits missing from your schedule and you need at least 12 to get FA. Or you can register for an intensive class that covers everything through the intermediate level in one year (the equivalent of 4 years of HS foreign language in 2 semesters, 6 hours class+12 jours hw a week).

Btw my advice would be to apply DUS not Business at Penn State if you want it to be a safety. Smeal is one of the hardest colleges to get into and you’re just premajor. Only apply to Smeal.directly if you think you have a shot at Sapphire. If applying to Smeal directly, it’s a high match. Psu DUS is a safety due to your gpa×scores.

Apply to honors at Temple.