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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If a school gives foreign language credit for the AP exam it won’t disqualify students from that credit just because they didn’t take 3-4 years of that foreign language in high school.[/quote]

I never said it would. I agree it would give credit. I specifically said that in my second post.

[b]I ALSO said that if a college has a list of high school courses it requires for admission--and many do--it often will not waive the requirement that APPLICANTS from US high schools take 3 or 4 years of foreign language in high  school for an applicant for whom English is not their first language and who can do well on an AP test in their native language.[/b]

New  York requires taking a foreign language to get a high school diploma. There are a heck of a lot of immigrants here, and they have to take foreign language in high school, just like everyone else.  If the high school they attend offers their native language they can take that, but most choose not to do so. If they do take it, they can graduate.  BUT they can't refuse to take any foreign language at all and still get a diploma.

The video maker lists no foreign language courses on his high school transcript.If he didn't take any foreign language, I suspect that hurt him. (He lives in California, which my googling indicates is not one of the 11 states which requires a foreign language to get a high school diploma.)

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That’s simply not true: many top colleges accept a good AP score to fulfill high school foreign language requirement.

Also, is English not this guy’s first language though? If he was born here or came here as a small kid, English is still his first language (even if his parents speak Chinese at home).

[b]I’m not sure why this hang up about his foreign language. His ECs and letters and essays may not be that great, so I’m not sure why he’s not happy with his great college outcomes![/b][/quote]
So I checked out the short video. He got a B+ in Calc AB and a bunch of A- in other classes. He also doesn’t come across as someone with great social skills, so he should feel lucky for being waitlisted by quite a few T20 elite colleges.[/quote]

Why are you so disgruntled, does that student profile hit a raw nerve?

He got a B+ in AP Calculus AB in 9th followed by an A and a 5 in AP Calculus BC in 10th grade. There weren’t “a bunch of A-“, there was one single A- in 9th grade for AP Human Geography. If you think that GPA and rigor prevented him from being admitted to Top 10 colleges you’re not in your right mind.[/quote]

He got another A- in stats. There’re too many kids with 4.0 unweighted GPA. A raw score of ~60% is enough to get a 5 in Calc BC. Plenty of kids have much more advanced math in high school than Calc BC. His ECs and social skills are likely unimpressive. But his academic achievements are not spectacular either.[/quote]

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