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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most competitive colleges may not like dropping the language...this has been said many times in sessions over the past few years.

Your DC has to decide whether that matters to them or not - they can always take the - "if they don't like me for me, then I'll go elsewhere" stance on the front end as long as they can live with the consequences/second thoughts on the back end.

For schools that want 4 years of language - I'm certain they mean 4 courses in HS....not that getting to level 4 is enough.  It's generally more acceptable to cut out of language by senior year when the student has no option to continue their language that year because of running out of courses.[/quote]

I posted above. You would be wrong. My kid was accepted at Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Vassar, UVA, Colby and Hamilton without Spanish 7 senior year because they took a second science. [/quote]

Really awesome choices!  Congrats to your child. If they are a first year, best wishes for a great year.

No snark or disrespect intended here (at all), but were there rejections? What were they?

You child's acceptances are an impressively competitive list (and a helpful one too). But I don't see the "pie in the sky" HYPSM, Top 10, Williams/Amherst/Pomona schools here....so I'm curious if your child applied to any of those.  These "lottery" schools are what I was referring to above as "most competitive". (But not everyone wants to apply to one of those - so maybe your child didn't.)
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Plenty of misinformation - Bowdoin is considered “most competitive” and has the exact same admissions rate (9%) as Williams (where my kid didn’t apply because it was too remote).

I suggest the OP call one of the colleges their kid is interested in. We were consistently told that with that many years of foreign language and substituting another very rigorous course, the lack of foreign language senior year was a non-issue. We found it to be true. [/quote]

Question: How is the information you were told any more "true" than the information we were told? I'm only sharing what college admissions staff have explicitly stated to us over the last year and a half. Everything noted in my original post was based on specific statements by college admissions staff. to us.  Obviously nothing is set in stone to apply to every single school (or to every student).[/quote]

[b]Because what you are repeating is general information based on the truth that colleges want to see students challenged all four years, want a certain level of all core subjects and don’t want to see students slacking off. [/b]That’s all true. But when a student has already achieved level 6 of a language and replaces it with another challenging course, it’s a different picture. As I said, my kid took two sciences senior year - AP Chem and AP Physics. She had to choose. She didn’t take an easy class. She still showed proficiency in Spanish. She wasn’t slacking - but there are a limited number of daily periods in high school and decisions have to be made. I thought not having four years of foreign language would hurt her so I asked - and we were told it was fine. The hs counselor said the same thing. And, in the end, it was fine.
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It's all good to share your experience. This is what OP is asking for and I have no issues with what you shared. You shared your child's experience and they had great admits (which I still think is lovely). You also provided a context for a science-leaning application and this is all useful information for OP.

But just because these were your experiences and just because they have some merit, it doesn't mean others' experiences are "misinformation".

Both experiences can be true and there's no need to attack the other.

In the end, none of us knows what will make the difference for the OP's child's applications. All we can do is share information based on what OP has asked. 
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