help choosing classes - incoming sophomore

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my school requires that each student take (at least) 3 yrs of a fine art and 5 yrs of a foreign language. as of last yr i have fulfilled my fine art requirement (orchestra) and am one year away from finishing my foreign language (french). i dislike both subjects a lot … especially french, where my grades have been wavering and i’ve gotten a few Bs. my dad and i have already decided that i’m gonna take my last year of french this summer on flvs to get it over with. i’m questioning this decision tbh? i think it’ll look bad to suddenly switch to virtual school. however, i don’t think there’s much room for argument at this point.

so what’s left to decide is what will replace french in my schedule. my dad believes i should continue with orchestra until senior year. i completely disagree … i’m terrible in the class and probably won’t be able to achieve anything, and it also makes it impossible to take some classes i really want to take in junior and senior year. he thinks it’s the better choice bc it looks bad for me to drop that line of study so early on. :-S

i want to replace french with ap seminar. it seems like a fun class and i’m excited to take it.

  1. should i take french online?
  2. if yes to 1: is continuing orchestra the right thing to do?
  3. if no to 2: do yall recommend ap seminar??

(it might seem strange that i’m mentioning my dad so much. he insists on being a huge force in all of my academic decisions and it’s generally rly hard to argue with him so keep that in mind i guess?)

thank you so much for any help you guys can offer!!!

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“I’m terrible in the class and probably won’t be able to achieve anything, and it also makes it impossible to take some classes I really want to take in junior and senior year.”

I think a lot of this depends on what classes you want to take your junior and senior years. Personally, if you were my child, I would allow you to take French online (because I’m a parent who doesn’t care how the class is taken, just take it) and I would allow you to give up orchestra if you disliked it as much as you say you do, although I would try to encourage you to stick with it if I thought you had talent. I like the idea of AP Seminar (and Capstone). DD’s school is offering Capstone for the first time this year, and it seems like a great way to incite learning through projects that actually interest individual students while giving them the tools they need to learn how to do college-level research projects.

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Flvs doesn’t have French 5. You’d have to take the equivalent at a community college, where it’s be college level 4 ( often called 202 , or 220 ).
Sure take seminar and capstone, and one class you 'ready currently really looking forward to ( make sure to let that enthusiasm shine in your essays .)

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thanks for the help!! flvs does have french 3 but it’s hidden somehow? i had to call to be given the sign up form online.
i think i’ll end up taking ap seminar!