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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is reassuring. I have a junior in pre-Calc who wants to attend a SLAC in international relations.  She wants to take AP Stats (am AP ECon) instead of AP Calc next year.  Which makes so much sense in social sciences. And yet...[/quote]

This is my kid. She will go through AP Latin.  She’s been doing summer school to make room for French, and will take French II as a junior.  Will have Honors Bio, Honors Chem, standard physics. Wants to skip science her senior year and take French III 3.

So senior year looks like:  AP Latin, AP Econ, AP Stats, AP Comparative Gov (which is a double AP), French III, DE English (she is AP English Lang now but doesn’t want Lit), Advanced Orchestra (she’ll have 4 years of fine arts).

Applying international relations with substantive things on her resume that show a strong interest in this area.

She’s targeting someplace like Tufts or Carleton and will try to apply ED.  Likely to qualify for $15,000 a year or so in need based aid for 2 years while a sibling is in college, then become full pay.   4.0W after sophomore year. 35 on practice ACT after sophomore year, with 36s in both English sections, 34 in science, 33 in math.

Is she being unrealistic to think that doing AP Stats, not AP Calc and French III, not Honors Geosystems or similar will hurt her chances?  Her guidance counselor thinks this will hurt her.  I think Stats is more useful than Calc for her and French III plus AP Latin sets her apart among IR applicants.

Thoughts?[/quote]

I think it sounds very well planned. But I'd hesitate to say AP Latin is going to make any kind of difference to anyone. She's not going into medicine where passing Latin and Greek is helpful. Its really useless for IR. The French is good but she'd be better taking another language which is usable.[/quote]

You may be right about the Latin. But, she’s three years in and very, very, good at it and her Latin teacher is phenomenal.  So here we are. I will say that Latin has been amazing for learning French. She picked up French so incredibly fast. Spanish and Italian should also be easy.  So, it has value.  She applied for NSLI-Y this summer in Arabic, but COVID. She’s reapplying for next summer in Arabic.  But COVID.  She may well end up with a gap year and do NSLI-Y Arabic. So, that’s on her radar.

There isn’t a way to get Arabic through her school. And we’ve looked in the community. Most of what’s out there is learning to read and recite the Koran. She is more into conversational Arabic, even if she can’t read or write at a high level. Open to suggestions if anyone knows one in the DMV. [/quote]

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