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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Foreign language was one of the reasons we decided against IB. My DC did two years of Spanish in middle school, and the plan is to do two more years in high school. If he can handle it he’ll sign up for AP Spanish in junior year, if not he’s done. Four years of foreign language is plenty even for the most selective colleges. IB FL is hard, and you have to pick one for the diploma. May be different if you speak at home, otherwise it’s not worth the effort. You’ll be in class with native speakers and have to work that much harder to even be average and the GPA will suffer. [/quote]

Point taken. MCPS families have different goals for language achievement. It's not all about what the most selective American colleges want for some of us. UK universities mainly admit on exam scores and IBD points totals. GPA doesn't interest them. My kid excels at Mandarin mainly because we're native speakers of Cantonese. We have relatives in England. If he can score high on HL Chinese, along with two sciences, he should be able to crack a top UK university we can readily afford. We'd much rather go that route than sink into student loan debt for a highly selective US private college.[/quote]

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