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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are overthinking this.

An admissions decision will not be determined by anything so down in the weeds as this. [/quote]

As a professor of languages (who does not teach it but very much supports the study of ASL), I disagree with this comment.  The relationship between ASL and graduation continues to be discussed at my own institution, and I would caution that any college that does not consider ASL a world language might potentially pause over it on a high-school transcript if language qualifications play a documentable role in the admissions process.  It does not take much time or effort to check, and you will probably be glad that you did regardless of what the answer is.[/quote]

I am the prior poster, and wanted to acknowledge that this responder seems more well qualified to comment on this topic than me.

It was my experience that lists of the coursework colleges wanted to see what somewhat more flexible than one might think. My own child, for example, did not take a 4th year of social studies (because she did not like that subject). I was worried because many schools had 4 years on their suggested curriculum list. My child took other, demanding courses that were very logical for her anticipated field of study. The social studies decision did not "seem" to hurt her, as she was accepted at 7/10 schools she applied to (not her reaches). So, that is where I was coming from. [/quote]

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