<p>take a year 3 class for the language in a local university? It’s all they offered (besides going into independent study, or doing things like film) and the course I was really interested – French phonetics – wasn’t offered in the fall. </p>
<p>I’ve been told that two years of a language in high school is equivalent to one year in college … but now looking back I am really questioning whether that was true – I guess I was expecting a more “intense” sort of course. I am wondering if colleges will see a third year college course in a language as an adequate continuation of a level 5 course in high school?</p>
<p>Take the class because you WANT to (for personal satisfaction, getting an idea of a real college class, etc) and LATER you can decide whether or not to report this to colleges.</p>
<p>Well no, I’ve already completed it. I just want to know how it looks.</p>
<p>I enjoyed it personally, but it wasn’t the most accelerated course ever, and if I didn’t increase my fluency I at least maintained it (better than not taking any course at all) – since it was focused on conversation (which is slightly weaker than my reading and writing). I enjoyed the professor and am taking her course next year on French phonetics – since I’ve self-taught myself amateur linguistics (sound changes and so forth) – and since so few language courses seem to be based around linguistics (just like a business class may or may not be based on economics), I am looking forward to it.</p>
<p>BUT, does it look funny?</p>
<p>I was rather appalled by the lack of provision of courses (in my area, at least) to those who had already gone past their fifth year of French, at least on the high school scale. But I played with the marbles given to me.</p>
<p>Don’t think it looks funny…I’d say it’s “neutral” in terms of any affect on influencing admissions.</p>
<p>I’d go ahead and report it – might look a tad unusual, but I’m sure it would be seen as a Good Thing overall in terms of admissions, if only because it contributed to the rigor of your course load. You could write a brief explanation, though putting a note in the additional info file might (or might not) be overkill. I think it would be ideal if you could work it into one of your essays.</p>
<p>I’ve already used my word limit for a lot of my essays to describe my cross-migrations, my resentment of monoculturalism (especially plural monoculturalism that gets passed off as “diversity” and multiculturalism), my desire for democratic reform in Singapore, being an administrator at Wikipedia and so forth, since they are more heartfelt and exciting things to write about to me (and thus I also have the hunch that they will be to the adcoms). I also have to use it to make up for my lacklustre ECs.</p>
<p>Whereas, while I did love the class and still learnt a lot, I don’t know how much it would be worth it to use up my word limit for that.</p>
<p>For my Common App schools it might be worth a shot – for the essays with no word limit, it wouldn’t harm the focus so much, would it?</p>
<p>By putting a note in the admission file, would it be perceived as being pompous or impertinent, or something?</p>
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Hey, me too! 
Though I didn’t put it on my college apps.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it at all – many students step down a level in a language when they go to college. different curriculum, scheduling conflicts, lack of course offerings, etc. It won’t be an issue at all.</p>
<p>But do many step down 3 levels?! (And would Adcoms take this into consideration?)</p>
<p>I am sort of hoping for an affirmation that 2 years of HS language study = 1 year of college language study is somewhat true, at least Ad-Com wise. Although perhaps personally I might not like the affirmation (it would feel that my HS education was rather inefficient).</p>