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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This. It’s very simple. The Ivies, top SLACs and uva want to see that you have taken the most rigorous courses offered by the high school on every level and done well in those courses. Remember most of those, like UVA, have an additional two years of foreign language in Arts and Sciences that they expect to see fulfilled because these institutions think they are educating citizens of the world not just Americans who can’t master even a second language.[/quote]

And yet there are several examples here where people got into top SLACS, Stanford and UVA without a senior foreign language course past AP. Do that with it what you may but following all the rules doesn’t get a kid in and breaking them doesn’t seem to keep them out. [/quote]

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