Should I drop Spanish for 2nd semester senior year?

heavyweightcollege
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:37:11 +0000

Yes. Regardless of whether this is the case for you, notifying all colleges of a drop (surprised your school allows) this late in the game would be uncommon. I think there is a higher likelihood this will be perceived as neutral/negative and not neutral/positive. Communicate something positive with admissions at this point, and not that you did not think through your schedule and quit Spanish 2nd 1/2 of the year. This has nothing to do with whether a college prefers 3 or 4 years of a language because 3 is probably fine. It is about who you are and how you will be perceived. And you can definitely say you dropped a language to pursue a passion, but your explanation here does not pass the smell test IMO. It seems that you want to drop Spanish because it is hard and takes a lot of time. Maybe colleges won’t care enough to get to the bottom of things, but I would not like the noise if I was your reader.