How do you know if your child would be competitive at top schools?

nogddg
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:49:33 +0000

My S has a learning disability that makes it almost impossible to learn a foreign language. In fact, the tester told us that he would need to waive that requirement. He refused to tell colleges or his HS that fact. So he suffered through Spanish 3, having to learn the material in a very laborious way, which he finished in his sophomore year and never looked back. He is very STEM focused, but also plays in the band and took the 2 year IB music course, along with AP English Lang, etc. He is going to a selective STEM college, which was his goal, as he know LAC was not a fit for him. So it is best to look at the requirements of the schools he wants to apply to. If he is much more interested in the STEM fields and schools that are highly ranked in that, I think the language will not be much of an issue.