Foreign Language for UC's [equivalency of college courses to high school years for admission purposes]

Colleges & Universities University of California - GENERAL
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If a student takes Spanish 1 at their high school and then takes Spanish 1 at community college, does that count as 3year LOTE for UCs?

According to the community college site, Spanish 1 is for students who:

  1. The student has never taken Spanish before.
  2. The student has taken two years of high school Spanish.
  3. Spanish is not spoken at home.

So yes, question is if a student takes Spanish 1 in high school and Spanish 1 in community college, is that 3 years?

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No, one more semester of College Spanish needs to be taken.

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At most California community colleges, the mapping is like this for UC admission purposes:

College foreign language High school foreign language
Semester 1 Year 2
Semester 2 Year 3
Semester 3 Year 4

For example, see University of California A-G Course List . You can look up a specific community college at University of California A-G Course List .

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The Level 1 college course would likely be a duplicate of the HS course. Colleges look for the highest level reached so I don’t see any benefit of re-taking Level 1 at the CC.

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Since college semester 1 is ordinarily considered equivalent to high school year 2 in California, a student who has completed only high school year 1 may not be ready for college semester 2.

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Ok, thanks. Didn’t know that. The OP’s description (#1) said the class was appropriate for a person who never took Spanish.

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UC says

E) Language other than English
Grade of C or better in any transferable course(s) (excluding conversation) held by the college to be equivalent to two years of high school language. Many colleges list the prerequisites for their second course in language as “Language 1 at this college or two years of high school language.” In this case, Language 1 clears both years of the requirement.
Subject requirement (A-G) | UC Admissions

Even though the OP’s school mentions 2 years of Spanish in terms of selecting the starting level it isn’t a prerequisite since it also says the course is appropriate for complete beginners. At best it sounds like completing Spanish 1 at the community college would get UC credit for 2 years of language.

The OP should look at Spanish 2 and see if it matches the UC prequisite description above.

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