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[quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you are writing more as a former BASIS parent with a chip on your shoulder, not an Ivy interviewer. Your kid found the language classes too easy and BASIS refused to pay for a Duolingo subscription for some other language? I don’t think any college, Ivy or not, would care about that. BASIS requires 5 years of a single foreign language (Chinese, Spanish, French, or Latin). DCPS high school only requires 2 years of a foreign language. Granted that middle/high school foreign language instruction in the US tends to be pretty bad but I don’t really think that colleges are discounting BASIS for de-emphasizing foreign languages. Plus, a recent BASIS grad went to an Ivy after self-studying a language that they didn’t take at BASIS and after acing the AP exam for that language. BASIS supported that fully. I don’t see any evidence that BASIS is discouraging kids from pursuing languages or interests outside of school. In fact, the opposite is true. [/quote]
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