Reply to UVA successful admit without taking world language all the way through?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "UVA successful admit without taking world language all the way through? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I think it's less important to focus on the idea of 4 years in HS and more important to focus on the level the student reaches.  My OOS DC got in this cycle having taken AP Span Lang in 11th grade and stopping after that.  Very, very few kids take AP Spanish Lit.

I believe that Dean J has said many times that what they ideally want to see is that kids have taken a capstone class-- AP/IB or whatever the school offers -- for each core subject, but most important is the rigor in the context of each school.  There isn't even a second AP French class offered, so kids taking French on an advanced track wouldn't have a class to take senior year.

So the issue is less whether a kid MUST  take 4 years in HS (the answer seems to be clearly no) and more whether they have taken a highly/most rigorous set of classes offered by the school in all subjects.  Undoubtedly, there will be kids accepted who stopped foreign language in 10th grade, well short of AP level, and get in, but that choice diminishes their chances and likely would require some countervailing strength in their application.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics