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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Google the name of the college and “common data set.” Find the most recent version and look at section C5. Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended.

[b]This won’t answer the Q of whether a college cares about your MS classes.[/b]

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Colleges DON'T care about MS classes.

Obviously,  right?[/quote]

You might think it’s obvious but many colleges require students to report middle school courses taken for high school credit on the SRAR.

“Obviously” a college wouldn’t require you to report a class they don’t care about, right?[/quote]

Middle school is over.

Move on.[/quote]

Do you know that some school sysyems include the MS classes on the HS transcript and in the HS GPA for languages and math[/quote]

+1. This was true at DC's high school. Two years of honors Chinese were included on the HS transcript and factored into HS GPA. Took two more years of Chinese in HS. Got into nearly every college applied to [b](T30-50)[/b]. [/quote]

The key is the selectivity of the school. Colleges in the T1-30 range are going to have higher expectations of the # of years of language taken during high school, excluding those taken during middle school.[/quote]

Not true.  Two of my kids who are at T5 schools had their first two years of language in middle school and their next 2-3 years in high school. All at advanced level, one completed sophomore year, and the other by junior year. Neither took foreign language senior year, but they had demonstrated advanced proficiency prior to then--AP curriculum. The balance of their HS curriculum was highly advanced, so class rigor was not an issue. They had several classmates who chose a similar path and ended up at top colleges.  [/quote]
How recent was this and were they STEM majors?[/quote]

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