To answer CoffeeCup's question.... IF my daughter had stayed in Spanish, she would be at level 5 for 10th grade, level 6 for 11th grade and then, take AP (Advanced Placement) for 12th grade. IF she took AP Spanish and then passed the AP exam with a score of 4 or 5 (5 is the highest) she "might" be able to get college credit for it. It used to be if you got a 3 you could get some college credit, now some colleges are only allowing a score of 5 and the limit the number of AP credits that you can have as well.

Chaika, that is very good to know. As I stated in an earlier post.... the state only requires 2 credits of a foreign language to graduate high school and we learned that colleges want to see 4 years of a language in high school. As she had completed 4 years of high school level Spanish , I let my daughter have the choice of continuing or taking another elective. When she said she wanted to start French, I was VERY surprised and pleased. Now that we heard about the colleges wanting the 4 years to be completed IN high school and not taking into consideration high school classes taken in middle school, we thought we might have done the wrong thing by her.

I'm glad to know that besides her desire just to learn a third language, she might need it for other things in college and she made the correct choice.