<p>I did advise the OP to beware of the level of difficulty of French III. It may not be good enough.</p>
<p>It’s the four years of a foreign language, especially if one’s tongue is not English, that I was arguing against. Classes and teachers vary enormously. S took Spanish IV (having started in elementary school) and Latin III. He did better on the language placement test in Latin than in Spanish, though his school grades were comparable in the two languages.</p>