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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Language for College Admissions is a different topic then which language is practical.  Consensus seems to be: No it does not matter for Admissions.

Finally - I never met a person that got fluent by taking HS Language. I never met a person that got fluent by taking College Language.

I do see a lot of over confident kids that get a reality check when landing  in a country of the targeted language.

The people that say Spanish was helpful - the exercise of interacting with native speakers is where you actually made progress. The HS Spanish just gave you a starting point.[/quote]Hi! I took 2 years of middle school French, 4 years of high school French, and 2 years of college French, and I am now fluent; [b]I consumer Francophone media on a regular basis [/b]and have been able to hold sustained conversations with French speakers about relatively high-level topics, such as college majors.[/quote]

So - you did activities that forced you to interact with French outside the classroom?  Let me expand - you need to speak with a native speaker or listen to native speakers on a regular basis.  You showed interest in the language. I've known kids that watched so much Anime  that they are fluent in Japanese, no classes just listen to the natives in their native tongue.  Keep it just in class - you think you would've been fluent after scoring a  5 on the AP?

Taking out the statistical outliers - of all the entering freshman that took 4+ years of the language. There are very few that are fluent and fewer that remember a portion of it past college. Anyone have stats that  1/2(or 1/3 or 1/4) are fluent because of HS Language? I think this is why AOs don't care about language; the kids are not fluent. If you did activities that demonstrates fluency that would be worth something.

This is the same is taking AP CS - sure does that mean you can code? The activates outside the classroom demonstrate that. [/quote]

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