Creating a College List for undecided STEM [physics, chemistry, ME, EE, math] / Languages [linguistics, Chinese, Arabic] [4.0 GPA in home school, 36 ACT, 1550 SAT]

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Because Arabic and Chinese are relatively difficult languages for English speakers to learn, it tends to take a greater number of courses or credits of those language courses to reach a high level of proficiency, compared to languages like French or Spanish*. So the needed level of courses may be quite high for a student wanting to learn them to a high level of proficiency.

*Arabic and Chinese are DLI category IV languages where the DLI courses are 64 weeks, versus 36 weeks for DLI category I languages like French and Spanish: Languages Offered | Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center . So it is likely that (for example) Spanish proficiency after 4th semester Spanish would be like Arabic proficiency after 7th semester Arabic.

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My student would be entering college with already int-high proficiency in chinese and int proficiency in Arabic. They would ideally like a school where they might be able to extend their learning to advanced

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