Question about foreign languages on transcript

[Mama Lynx]

By the time my oldest hits 9th grade, he will have completed the equivalent of two years of high school Latin.

 

I understand that I am not supposed to put his Latin I and Latin II on the high school transcript. We are planning to complete Latin III and Latin IV in high school, and so those will be on his transcript. Then, we are planning to complete two years of a modern foreign language.

 

However, several of the colleges we have looked at prefer to see four years *of the same language,* over two years of two different languages.

 

Even though Latin III and Latin IV are technically only two years of a language on the high school transcript, in your experiences will college admissions people recognize that that means the student *has* studied the language for more than two years, at what must have been a high school level, in order to enter high school at Latin III?

[Faithr]

Hi Stephanie, I think the the folks will assume that the student must have already taken Latin I and II previously to III and IV. But you can always stick a note in either with an asterisk or in parenthesis that he'd already ready taken high school level Latin.

[KAR120C]

I was looking through the SAT Subject Test reports on the College Board site, where they compare language test results for kids who've had 2, 3 or 4 years of the language or are native speakers, and found it unreasonably amusing that they counted 114 native speakers of Latin.....:001_huh: with the footnote that those included students who did the bulk of their Latin learning outside of high school (earlier, or in outside classes).

 

Anyway I think getting to the fourth year is probably what most of those colleges are after, whenever it was done. The only time I think it might be an issue is if you were counting four very early years of not very rigorous study (like the elementary school level Spanish classes around here that are entirely comprised of singing songs about vegetables...), but one good test score should clarify that, or (if you don't go for testing) a good syllabus outlining the materials used.

[readwithem]

By the time my oldest hits 9th grade, he will have completed the equivalent of two years of high school Latin.

 

I understand that I am not supposed to put his Latin I and Latin II on the high school transcript. We are planning to complete Latin III and Latin IV in high school, and so those will be on his transcript. Then, we are planning to complete two years of a modern foreign language.

 

However, several of the colleges we have looked at prefer to see four years *of the same language,* over two years of two different languages.

 

Even though Latin III and Latin IV are technically only two years of a language on the high school transcript, in your experiences will college admissions people recognize that that means the student *has* studied the language for more than two years, at what must have been a high school level, in order to enter high school at Latin III?

You could put Latin I and II on his transcript, with a note saying 8th grade courses were high school work.

[Reya]

I understand that I am not supposed to put his Latin I and Latin II on the high school transcript. We are planning to complete Latin III and Latin IV in high school, and so those will be on his transcript. Then, we are planning to complete two years of a modern foreign language.

 

 

Put it on his transcript, for goodness sakes!

 

EVERY child in Texas would have it on their public school transcript--it is Texas law that they receive high school credit for high school level work. If you don't feel comfortable assigning a grade, put "P."

 

My 6-y-o will have a credit of foreign language by next year (.5 Latin and .5 Spanish) and a credit of high school math the year after that. I'm not sweating it.