Admissions Common Doubts VI of XI
Our school doesn’t offer Latin. Is that a problem?
The short answer: It is the usual situation. Most of our students attend schools with no Latin, and still sit the AP exam and the international contests.
It describes most of our students. They attend international schools, foreign language high schools, and boarding and day schools that have no Latin department at all, or have stopped teaching to the AP exam.
So the course here is the whole course, not a supplement. A student starts with a first course chosen by grade, moves through Latin Literature, and arrives at AP Latin, with nothing assumed from a school class that does not exist.
The AP exam does not require a school that teaches Latin. The College Board lets a student sit the exam through another school’s AP coordinator, or as an independent candidate; our students do it every year. The registration is the family’s step, and we guide you through it.
The international contests work differently: as a member of the organizations that hold them, we handle the registration and the monitoring ourselves.
A school without Latin is not a gap in your child’s education. It is simply where serious Latin usually begins now.
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