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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact is that most top students start language in middle school and have Algebra 1 in middle school as well. 
 
Unless someone here is a Princeton admissions rep, no one knows what Princeton "counted." You just know that a student was admitted. [/quote]

Students who apply from private schools have all taken Algebra in middle school.  It's not on their high school transcript.  Princeton knows that they have taken Algebra because no high school would allow them to go on to Geometry and Algebra II without it.  Public school students with middle school Algebra do not get "counted" as having more high school classes than private school students.

It sounds like the admitted student took two years of German in high school.  She must have had a very rigorous curriculum in other areas.  I've heard that studying a foreign language that isn't Spanish or French can be a big plus, because universities have other foreign language departments that need students.  Princeton has an excellent German language program and was probably thrilled to have an student who would likely continue her study of the German language.

By the way, when I took Spanish 101 at Princeton (voluntarily, after high school French and Latin), I met many students who had actually had four years of high school Spanish and didn't place out.

Signed,
Princeton grad
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