What is the impact of dropping a foreign language senior year?

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<p>This discussion was never about slacker classes…but rather the choice of other class versus language. I am not suggesting slackers unite in second semester. I am saying there is no hard and fast answer but I agree that one should take what interests you most during the second semester…perhaps special senior seminars are offered as they were at my HS.</p>

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<p>tanman -
“Second semester really doesn’t matter since acceptances are in”</p>

<p>unless the cruel fates have placed you on a wait list!</p>

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<p>that ugly list…WAIT…the keep yourself on the treadmill but ratchet up the angle and speed…YUK</p>

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<p>i only took up to spanish 3, (8th, 9th, 10th)…</p>

<p>(i would have taken spanish 4, but i took ap govt instead…)</p>

<p>augh.</p>

<p>is that bad?</p>

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<p>My school is small, there is not even a fourth year language course to take. We only offer Spanish I through Spanish III. We don’t even have AP courses of any kind. Don’t worry about it if you don’t take one your senior year. I took the Spanish placement test at orientation and placed above most other students who had four years of spanish and even AP courses. You’ll be fine either way.</p>

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<p>I forgot to ad—second semester does count. One of my friends had some financial aid pulled for slacking off at the end of his senior year. After everything is said and done, your guidance counselor sends your final transcript to the school you will be attending in the fall. If your g.p.a. drops below the level required for a high school senior to qualify for a certain scholarship, they can take it away.</p>

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<p>There are some schools who will not be happy if you go to level 4 of a language and then don’t take the language in the senior year, IF, you haven’t maxed out the course offereing in that language at your school. Where I work, the languages go into a level 5 and level 6 in the case of Spanish and French, so stopping after level 4 in your junior year is one of the biggest things that our Director warns students, parents and advisors to avoid: she hears from admissions committees about why they pass on a student and dropping a language after level 4 in the junior year when one could have taken level 5 has been mentioned several times.</p>

<p>One of the biggest course selection errors some of our kids have made is to say, I’ve made it to level 4 of French, but I’d like to get some Spanish under my belt because I’d like to study Spanish (or whatever language, you fill in the blank) in college, so they skip level 5 and take Spanish 1: big mistake and a real turn off to colleges.</p>

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<p>How wrong you are. First of all your acceptance into college is based on your successful completion of high school usually with grades that are pretty consistent with the ones you had when you got admitted. Your GC must send your college a final transcript with proof that you have graduated.</p>

<p>If you got into an honors program or recieved merit money, bad second semester grades, can and will get you booted out and losing your merit.Your admissions can and will be rescinded because of a slide.</p>

<p>Recinded admission (UCs)</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=84014&highlight=pomona[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=84014&highlight=pomona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=75915&highlight=rescinded[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=75915&highlight=rescinded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>rescinded admission at UNC-CH</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=79883&highlight=rescinded[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=79883&highlight=rescinded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>This is just a test for posting.</p>