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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just so you know, the more competitive colleges look for 3-4 years of a foreign language at the high school level. It doesn't have to be Chinese. In fact, if he maxes out on the Chinese after sophomore year, he'd need to start a different foreign language just to get his 3-4 years of high school-level foreign language. But if he drops the Chinese next year, he should definitely switch to another language like Spanish or French.[/quote]

I think the above assumption apply to the majority of college applicants that are fluent speakers of English language and are learning another language (Spanish, French, Madarin, etc.) as a second langue.  I don't think the rule (taking 3-4 years of a foreign language in high school) apply to kids that are functionally bilingual or multilingual (speaks English and at least another foreign language equally well).[/quote]

I'm the original poster on this little sub-topic. My DC1 started a foreign language in middle school and DC2 did immersion (not in Chinese) starting in K. DC1 is a junior now and DC1's college counselor has been clear that you need 3-4 years of a foreign language *in high school* so when DC1 maxed out at 3 years (the high school didn't offer a 4th year of this unusual language) after freshman year, DC1 was told to start another language. We've heard over and over, wrt DC2 who is in immersion, that DC2 will probably max out (i.e. AP level) in that language in the middle of high school and will need to start a second language. We've heard from many places that it's not enough for DC2 to take the AP level as a sophomore and stop with languages altogether.[/quote]

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