<p>I skipped two years(I took it for a week or so) of Spanish in school but I learned it on my own time, so I was let into third level spanish for next year. Will this be looked down upon even if I get an A in the third level? Will it show that I still learned the language even though I didn’t take it at school?</p>
<p>59 views and no replies :(</p>
<p>I think that’s because people are reading this thread and don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. If I understand you correctly (and I might not), then you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That’s like a freshman kid who skips ninth grade geometry so that he can take Calc BC instead, and then worries that Stanford will be angry that he took calculus instead of geometry. Stanford would much rather see you taking more advanced classes than wasting time with intro-level classes.</p>
<p>Well you get me correctly but its not the same case. I didn’t replace a class with another more advanced class in the same year(like you stated).</p>
<p>It goes like this</p>
<p>Freshman year:
Spanish did not fill a slot in my day schedule at school, but I self - studied.</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
Spanish did not fill a slot in my day schedule at school, but I self - studied.</p>
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<li>So those do not show up on my transcript.</li>
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<p>Junior year(entering):
Will have Spanish level III in my day schedule, so it will be on my transcript.</p>
<p>Is that a real bad thing?</p>
<p>I can’t think of any negative effects whatsoever. You may wish to point out what happened in the “additional information” section at the end of the common app, just to let your schools know. Or, even better, you could get your school counselor to explain what happened in his/her report that they send out with your 9th-11th transcript along with the common app.
The only possibly negative conclusion that I could see them drawing is that you were able to go straight to Spanish III because you are Hispanic. NO, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING HISPANIC. lol. However, if you aren’t Hispanic, then you don’t want them thinking that you took this class because it would be easy for you as a native speaker. So yes, you should get your counselor to let the college know that you’re not taking the easy way out, but that you weren’t able to fit Spanish into your schedule, and so you self-studied so that you’d be able to take Spanish III.
Hope that helped!</p>
<p>“However, if you aren’t Hispanic, then you don’t want them thinking that you took this class because it would be easy for you as a native speaker. So yes, you should get your counselor to let the college know that you’re not taking the easy way out”</p>
<p>Explain?</p>
<p>If I’m not hispanic, itd be easy for me because I was a native speaker?</p>
<p>Well I’m not hispanic. As I’ve said in a previous thread, I didn’t do so well in freshman year, so in sophomore year I decided not to take spanish but I did have room for it. So how does it still look as long as Ive self studied it and know it?</p>
<p>Let me reiterate: The only negative conclusion that I could see colleges possibly drawing from the straight to Spanish III scenario is that you are a native Spanish speaker and intentionally took Spanish so that the language you took would be easy for you. Stanford doesn’t want to see Chinese people in America taking Chinese in school, or French people in America taking French in school. Instead, they want to see people challenge themselves by taking new languages. So you need to make it clear that you are not Hispanic, and that you self-studied to get into Spanish III. Like I said, get your counselor to do it.
For the response to the second part of your question, read my original response to your question. It’s all there.</p>