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Originally Posted by live_freely318
I'm currently a Junior in high school (young I know) and I have my whole being set on going to school in New York, but I'm in New Mexico and live in this crappy small town that no one ever leaves. I have the grades, school activities and skill to be able to go to basically whatever school I choose, but I'm still working on getting all of the credits I need to graduate.
The high school I go to requires 1 year of foreign language, although they recommend taking 2 years, while most colleges I've looked at require 3. I didn't know this until recently. Me being in my Junior year of high school and only having two years left I thought I would be okay...until I looked at colleges. I am currently taking my FIRST year of a foreign language, in my Junior year, and I only have this year and next year to get the rest of my credits.
This is making me freak out. I had my whole life planned out and this is destroying my plan. I wanted to go to a college in New York, preferably an Ivy League school, and have a double major in psychology and pre-med school to become a psychiatrist. I have Bipolar Disorder 2 and I know how it feels to feel basically lost and that nothing will ever get better and I want to help people not feel that way.
There’s more than one option on how to get all 3 years of foreign language before I graduate but I take school so seriously and want to be successful so this is stressing me out. I’ve talked to my counselors, all the foreign language teachers, my gifted teacher and my parents and they all say “Don’t worry you can get it done” and I know I can I’m just stressed out. I might just end up taking Spanish I this year, Spanish II over the summer and Spanish III next year. I’m just stressed. Any advice would be much appreciated, whether it’s how to go about getting all the credits I need or how to cope, anything will help.
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Have you considered summer school or online classes? Either way, the three classes will only be necessary if you want to go to one of those prestigious schools that require three years of a foreign class. Most places only require two years. Also, do they have to be the same language? If not, then maybe in your senior year you could take two language classes of different languages.