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[quote=Anonymous][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]

NP Not sure why you are so curt with PP who is complimenting your kid! Bowdoin is a top admit, but Williams is clearly more competitive-- higher gpa/scores of applicants and slightly lower rate overall. Also, if these LAC acceptances were for a boy, there might be more leeway as more girls typically apply to LACs.[/quote]

😂😂 Because that’s not a compliment and I don’t need a stranger on a board to tell me that Bowdoin is a top admit - especially not a person who is repeating some sort of generalized advice. My kid didn’t apply to Williams (thought it was too remote) so I really can’t say whether they would or wouldn’t get in. We were happy with the results. But the advice being given here is inaccurate and I really recommend the OP talk to the specific schools because when we asked, we were told it was fine. This includes colleges where they recommend and even report four years of foreign language (like Wesleyan). They will often say that if a student has reached AP or IB level (which is what Spanish 6 is), the student is fine as long as they replace with a challenging class. (Fwiw, my kid did ask at Amherst and received the same reply - that senior classes were fine without foreign language) but never ended up applying to Amherst. They really fell in love with both Bowdoin and Wes when we visited.)

https://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/apply/class-profile.html
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[b]PP here.  Last I checked "impressive and competitive " were compliments.[/b]

Look, I agree your experience is valuable,  but it's not universal,  and I thought a PP had sad they contacted the AO. So, not sure why you feel the need to be so defensive.

Mine was admitted to Wes too, but she didn't love it. It did give her awesome FA, though (for those considering Wes).[/quote]

I am that PP and I was (am) absolutely complimenting this kid's list of admits and am genuinely happy for them.

And thanks to the parent of that kid for later adding context that their child hadn't applied to other school I listed and that Tufts was not an acceptance.

Still not happy with the attacks or defensiveness...but moving on.      [/quote]

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