<p>Have her listen frequently to a Spanish tv or radio station – that will help her skills immensely.</p>
<p>Sons college accepted his 3 on the AP german test. This counted as his college language requirement. I think it gave him either 6 or 9 college credits. Awesome.</p>
<p>If she gets a low grade on the AP test it cannot harm her in anyway that I can think of.</p>
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One of the stupid things about our cable provider is they don’t generally provide any Spanish speaking stations in our suburban area, but I think there may be some stuff online.</p>
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I could have her try to talk to the counselor. They tend to be very rigid in terms of the pre-reqs, so it seems like a tough sell.</p>
<p>Regarding a Spanish Minor in college - when it comes to hiring, I don’t really care if folks have a minor or major - what matters if they are fluent verbally and in the written language. You can become fluent without getting the major or minor in Spanish. What is noted on a resume is “fluent in Spanish” not the degree. Just one perspective.</p>
<p>i managed to pull 5 in spanish lang and a 6 in ib spanish b sl with a little extra prep and a great teacher but my friend pulled a 2 in ap and a 6 in ib spanish without any prep.</p>
<p>ap is a lot lot lot harder than ib spanish b IMHO.</p>
<p>An update on post #6 - My sophomore son scored a 4 on AP Spanish language. Yes, it was a tough test - especially since his school screwed up administering the test on the normal test date so he had to take the late test- but he did well considering that his only Spanish experience was two years in middle school, 1 month at Concordia language villages the summer prior to grade 9, and levels 4 and 5 in high school.</p>
<p>My D (white, non-Hispanic) got a 4 on the AP Spanish after 4 years of high school Spanish classes. She didn’t do any special preparation besides her high school class. She could have used that 4 to satisfy the foreign language requirement at her U, but she decided to keep on studying Spanish, spent last fall studying abroad in Madrid, and is doing a Spanish minor, so I think it was all good.</p>
<p>My kids were both pretty good at Spanish. DD took IB Spanish her jr year and got 6 of 7. After another year of Spanish (and probably not enough hard work) she took AP Spanish and got a 3. I remember one of the Spanish teachers telling me that her own daughter had a 3. </p>
<p>DS got a 5 or 6 I think on IB Spanish. He had no interest in AP due to the tough reputation. Over half who take is are native speakers.
[Advanced</a> Placement Spanish Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement_Spanish_Language]Advanced”>AP Spanish Language and Culture - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>DD got a 4 in AP Spanish with no summer program, living abroad or outside studying. However, her HS teaches immersion language so they are forced to speak, write and listen in Spanish in class at all times. I have no data, but the school generally does very well on AP tests, so I think it makes a difference. The hardest part of the AP test is the speaking and listening. If your D’s HS teaches immersion then it may be worth a shot. May also be worth it to try the SAT II with listening in November (only offered a few times per year). Language placement at DD’s school correlates a 670 on SAT II to a 4 on the AP and placement into third year Spanish.</p>
<p>xaniamom, rereading the thread I once again am grateful for the flexibility and willingness to help kids excel exhibited by our public schools. When S was in 7th grade, they let him take 8th grade French, no problem. When he was in 8th grade, they let him go to the (adjacent) HS for French II, again no problem. When he wanted to start Spanish in 9th grade, they actually SUGGESTED that he should try doing some summer study, and taking a placement test at the end of the summer in order to skip into Spanish II. They were afraid he would be bored in Spanish 1. When junior year rolled around, they allowed him to take AP French Lit as an independent study, and the AP French Lang teacher made a point of including the required poetry in her curriculum. She and the GT coordinator met with him on a more or less weekly basis for two years (it’s a 2-year course of study): extra, uncompensated work for the French teacher. </p>
<p>What a difference from your D’s situation! Do you have an update yet?</p>
<p>Look at the language requirements and AP credits for the schools that she insinterested in attending. They are all very different RE language. Some you pass out completely - some the score is for placement but no credit and some you get the credit but only after copleting another language class. Some give credit for a 5 and placement with a 4.</p>
<p>D has no cultural Spanish bacground and gor 4 AP and 6 IB SL junior year. It also seems like the accent used in the listening portion is Spanish rather than Mexican which can throw kids off.</p>