What is the ideal number of years of foreign language in high school?

You’ve provided too little information for me to answer. It depends on the target colleges. It depends on the course you’d rather take. It depends on your planned major. It depends on what other core/elective courses you would be taking that year. It depends on how many courses your school requires per year.

But what I will say is that in general, colleges are not putting together their recommended HS preparation for giggles. If you want to deviate you should be armed with a valid reason. There a couple of valid reasons and a lot of invalid reasons.

I’ll also add that many colleges have a foreign language requirement to graduate. In theory, the more you take in HS, the fewer you’ll need to take in college. And personally, I think that taking a Spanish class taught by a grad student at the expense of a course taught by a full professor isn’t maximizing the college experience.

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