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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you curious about?
You've already determined they won't take advantage of the opportunity to go to college in Latin America.
Your kids opportunity to become bilingual was a privilege of having educated parents, not a disadvantage they could use as leverage for college admission.   
This isn't the same situation as kids who group up with parents who don't speak English, and have to act as translators for their parents.[/quote]

I’m wondering whether or something like this rises to the level of a kid being super committed to a sport, or some other very time-consuming extra curricular.  [/quote]

I think it’s more about what your kid can do with the language.

We are very much in the same boat as you - Anglo, Spanish-speaking parents who raised a bilingual kid (attended bilingual school, spent lots of time in Spanish speaking countries, spent a lot of time with friends in situations where everyone was speaking Spanish).  Where this came into play for DS’s application was in describing his extra curricular activities:

- working at a job during high school where speaking Spanish was required
- being an assistant coach for a youth team coached in Spanish
- spending weeks over the summer volunteering at a research facility in Latin America, and doing some English tutoring and translating for program staff while there.

Not sure if a T-10 school would have cared, but it definitely helped him get into his extreme reach T-25 school. [/quote]

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