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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are both American (going back generations) but I was a Spanish major in college and somehow convinced DH to raise our kids bilingual in Spanish and English. They only speak Spanish with me and English with DH. And they attend a Spanish language school which, upon graduation, will confer the equivalent of a high school diploma such that they could attend university in much of Latin American. I’ve never thought about this from a college applicant perspective (they will go to college in the states) but as my oldest is starting high school next year, I’m now curious. [/quote]

Pretty much zilch. I know a LOT of bilingual kids, nearly all having at least one parent, maybe both, who are native speakers and it has made ZILCH difference in their college admissions. In fact, in the most recent group, a mix of legacies and not, had kids dinged at T10, T20 schools. All the parents are college educated, nearly all of them have post grad degrees, academic and professional. Perhaps, as another poster mentioned, if your kids were first gen then someone would care, but not when the kid is growing up in a home with highly educated parents (which still means a BA in the US). [/quote]

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