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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find a lot of these artifical requirements so irritating. So Williams, UVA, etc would prefer a kid take level 1-4 of Spanish in HS than stop at level 4 of Spanish sophmore year. Because that is often what this amounts to at my kids’ HS (Whitman)- my older was in AP Spanish Lang as a junior and really disliked it and struggled but because we followed the advice that “colleges want to see 4 years of FL taken IN high school, his gpa was affected and he suffered through AP Spanish Lit as a senior which was a disaster. With my my younger we wised up and she started level 1 of Spanish in 8th grade, so she will finish off HS in spanish 5. They will probably be eligible at the same colleges, maybe my daughter even beyyer because she still has a 4.0 thanks to the easier pathway. [/quote]

Why would you make your child miserable like that. I encouraged my kid to take AP Spanish Lit senior year but my kid really did not want to take it so we said fine, drop it if it will make you miserable. Kid still got into top ivy. [/quote]

That is great for your son, but you missed the point of most of this thread. Many of our kids worked hard and are aiming for ivies, top slacs and the advice we are given - by other parents, hs guidance counselors, provate college counselors, and most importantly, college admissions reps, is that too colleges want to see 4 years of FL taken while in HS. We specifically noted to all giving by us advice that son has gone thru AP world language and the responses we got were that if there is a further rigorous course offered, colleges will want him to take it instead of dropping the language. As I said, we are handling world languages differently for our daughter, intentionally holding her “back” which seems counter intuitive to what top colleges should be looking for. [/quote]

Not the PP you are replying to….but maybe your kid wouldn’t have gotten into the Ivy either way. This is not meant as an insult, it’s just that you can’t know the counterfactual and we all know there are far more qualified applicants than spots for the tip top schools.  Who knows what the special sauce was for each acceptance or what caused a school to pass on all those amazing kids in the no pile.  For this same reason, you also can’t compare your kid to any of  the PPs whose kids dropped language but got into an Ivy . None of us really know what it was that tipped the scale. It’s all speculation.

The best you can do is keep your kid mentally healthy in this process. So I suspect PP is questioning whether it’s worth supporting a kid to make a miserable choice purely for the Ivy goal.

I do hope your child is happy where they landed and that they are thriving.  I’m sure they will end up doing great.  And, for both of your sakes ( but child’s  especially), I hope you are not disappointed in where they landed ( it’s hard to tell if disappointment is lurking behind your frustration with the system). [/quote]

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