Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the bios on Reddit/collegeresults and A2C of linguistics majors.

They do a ton of ECs with languages. A ton. Are you doing that?

like what?

Here’s a good one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/s/exo45zJDHQ

Other common ones are below. This isn’t rocket science people.


Awards: National linguistics Olympiad

ECs:
1. founder and president of school linguistics club & team, school honored club and national representative etc
2. co-founder of Tolkien club (literature, linguistics, arts and such)
3. Leiden Summer School in Language and Linguistics (rarely have high schoolers)
4. city-wide linguistics competition director
5. Translator/tutor for volunteering services

Whoa. That link - crazy ECs

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the bios on Reddit/collegeresults and A2C of linguistics majors.

They do a ton of ECs with languages. A ton. Are you doing that?

like what?

Here’s a good one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/s/exo45zJDHQ

Other common ones are below. This isn’t rocket science people.


Awards: National linguistics Olympiad

ECs:
1. founder and president of school linguistics club & team, school honored club and national representative etc
2. co-founder of Tolkien club (literature, linguistics, arts and such)
3. Leiden Summer School in Language and Linguistics (rarely have high schoolers)
4. city-wide linguistics competition director
5. Translator/tutor for volunteering services

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

Nobody gives a $h!t. It's not special.

Yes, it means in this country.

--Fluent in three, with kids fluent in three. It's common.

fluency in 3 languages if very uncommon. saying "i am fluent" while being very far from it, is common.

That’s kinda unfair though.

For example, my kids have really high stats in DuoLingo and it’s recognized.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You realize for people that are multi-lingual; French and Spanish is not a big deal. Any combination of languages in Europe is normal in Europe. It comes of as: pulling a fast one.

Say you are Chinese and brag about being fluent in Chinese? Its normal - there was no additional effort on your part.

Please stop. I am a European. Very few people are fluent in one, much less several languages. Just because they can give you directions to the Eiffel Tower doesn't mean they are fluent.

To say that "being fluent in Chinese requires no additional effort" for a child of Chinese immigrants (if that is what you are talking about) is laughable. As an immigrant I know a lot of immigrants and their kids (not many Chinese). Not a single child is fluent intheir parents' language. It is extremely difficult for an American born and educated child to be fluent in their parents' language.

+1

The only difference is that multilingualism is considered worthwhile in the rest of the world, aka outside of the USA where no one really cares.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

Nobody gives a $h!t. It's not special.

Yes, it means in this country.

--Fluent in three, with kids fluent in three. It's common.

lol for someone so haughty, you're wrong on all counts.
It is absolutely not common to be truly tri-lingual.
First gen means that you or your siblings are the first to go to college anywhere. Not just in this country.

Anonymous wrote:You realize for people that are multi-lingual; French and Spanish is not a big deal. Any combination of languages in Europe is normal in Europe. It comes of as: pulling a fast one.

Say you are Chinese and brag about being fluent in Chinese? Its normal - there was no additional effort on your part.

Please stop. I am a European. Very few people are fluent in one, much less several languages. Just because they can give you directions to the Eiffel Tower doesn't mean they are fluent.

To say that "being fluent in Chinese requires no additional effort" for a child of Chinese immigrants (if that is what you are talking about) is laughable. As an immigrant I know a lot of immigrants and their kids (not many Chinese). Not a single child is fluent intheir parents' language. It is extremely difficult for an American born and educated child to be fluent in their parents' language.

Anonymous wrote:Look at the bios on Reddit/collegeresults and A2C of linguistics majors.

They do a ton of ECs with languages. A ton. Are you doing that?

like what?

The combination that is of interest is

Chinese
Arabic
Russian

especially for a kid looking at International Relations etc.

You realize for people that are multi-lingual; French and Spanish is not a big deal. Any combination of languages in Europe is normal in Europe. It comes of as: pulling a fast one.

Say you are Chinese and brag about being fluent in Chinese? Its normal - there was no additional effort on your part.

If multi-language fluency is part of the "story," then it absolutely will help.

Look at the bios on Reddit/collegeresults and A2C of linguistics majors.

They do a ton of ECs with languages. A ton. Are you doing that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

It means neither parent can be a university grad — anywhere.

Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

My understanding is that this may differ among schools as some US colleges/universities view it as "university graduate with a knowledge of the American system". Not sure if true,but this is something that I read online within the past week.

Fluency in French, English, & Spanish will be noted, but none are considered critical languages by the US government as all are fairly common in the US. Therefore, while this should help regarding admissions, it may not move the needle much unless tied into a major and one's career goal.

I wrote the above.

In support of the bolded portion, read the second paragraph of the Chronicle of Higher Education article:

https://www.chronicle.com/featured/student-success/student-centric-institution/who-is-a-first-generation-student

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a friend in college who was the son of Swiss diplomats and spoke 5 languages, but he was also studying international relations himself. So it depends a bit on the field.

Re: generation, no they won't consider the child of someone with a degree from abroad to be first generation. It's more about helping kids who don't necessarily have the advantages of being able to navigate the system.

Why would the child of someone whose parents went to college in a different university be able to navigate the system more than the child of someone whose parents grew up here but didn't go to college?

It's not strictly about navigating the system, it's about research and critical thinking skills. Any person with college experience should have developed them and been able to use them to guide their kid and navigate even in a different country. I used mine when I lived abroad. Sure, my US degree didn't translate in the other country, and my job options were limited, but I used what I had learned in higher ed to figure out a path. You see that with educated immigrants here too. That is not the first gen colleges mean. They mean first to go to college or child of parents who did not attend college anywhere.

Unlikely. There is only one universal language, English.

Anonymous wrote:I said first gen even though my mother was college educated in her home country, but worked as a housekeeper in the US.

Then you weren't first gen and made a duplicitous statement. Your mother was educated.