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[quote=Anonymous]I agree. My oldest is not great at languages at all and hated taking Spanish. It just doesn't come naturally to him. He stopped after Spanish 3, to make room for taking computer programming instead. Like your dd, he also has relatively mild ADHD and is totally a pointy math and science kid.

If not having 4 years of a language makes him less competitive for certain types of schools, so be it -- but it was more important to him to learn computer programming, and for what he wants to do, he's not looking to go to a classic liberal arts program where they attempt to produce Renaissance scholars.

According to my sister who is in the college admissions business, these days many colleges and universities want well-rounded student bodies rather than well-rounded students -- in other words, they like pointy students who have gone deep on a couple of things rather than gone wide on all things. And as she says there is a lid for every pot -- i.e. lots and lots of colleges and universities where you can get a great education no matter whether you are pointy or rounded.[/quote]

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