<p>If your fluent in frenh swissbrit you must be so bored in French 3. Im surprised they let you take it, lol. I was in your french class this arfternoon and I was trying to work out which was you, it was funny. tHat reminds me that i have French homework to do, so I better go do it. I’ll probablly see you :p</p>
<p>Haha yeah I just sit there and play games on my phone/calculator or time to time read. Yeah I wanted to take french and Italian but they would not let me so I decided to continue taking french to not lose my vocabulary lol</p>
<p>SHe doesn’t get mad at you? I’ve had my book confiscated by here upwards of 20 times. Guess it’s a privlege of being a fluent student. Plus I’m definitely not in her good book.</p>
<p>Andover will let you take French, but definitely not French 300 or 400… Those classes are built around improving fluency. French 500 and 600 are based upon the assumption that you already have it. You’d most likely be put into French 500, 520, or 600 - there are fluent freshmen in each. For you, it would be like taking English at a French school, if that makes sense. We read a lot, watch movies, and write tons of analytical essays. The class isn’t based upon acquisition of grammar or really learning French - it’s to help you articulate in French.</p>
<p>@ Blue , well I mean I have to be discrete about it and I still have to participate in activities, basically I sit there and relax.Lol, yeah being a fluent student does help. @ Tom- Yup french 500-600 and all that would be more intresting than what I am doing now or french 300- 400. Also do you guys write a lot of litterary anlysis essays in your English class ?</p>
<p>This thread makes me want to take a spoken language but I think I will take latin in BS because it helps with other romance languages.</p>
<p>Anyone know whether there’s data on any “mix shift” between FA and non-FA applications? When I heard about increases (excluding international applicants) I was very surprised given the economy. It’s not like public schools just went off the cliff, it’s been a long steady process…</p>
<p>Yeah Urbanflop I want to take Latin if I go to BS too, and the cool thing at Andover is that they have this course where you take Latin 100 and Latin 200 in one year…So if you take that Freshman year, you have 3 more years to go in depth in Latin courses.</p>
<p>According to what I’ve found on Chinese forums, most applicants here use the “agency sevice”, which is SO BAD! They copy the boarding school review and paste it on their website without translating!(I’ve emailed BSR about that…); they have rankings based on the Ivy rate; they only provide info about college placement,etc.
And, most of them write ESSAYS for you! OMG It’s just insane. There are some “experts” who claim that you need to get “recommended” in order to have an interview with the AO.</p>
<p>I just want to say that the Chinese pool is just not THAT competitive(hopefully…as I’m the one who desperately need FA). But there is a HUGE increase in the number of applicants!(DA’s int’l admission rate was 9% last year. FYI)</p>
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<p>I have been wondering about this quite a bit; that is, where this large increase is coming from. If it is indeed largely coming from Asian internationals, this only makes entry for those kids even more competitive and at the same time, artificially suppresses admissions rates across the board. So, the increased selectivity may only apply to kids applying from those overrepresented countries assuming schools do not increase the number of slots for those countries.</p>
<p>I’m sure the impact the spike of Chinese and Korean applicants has on admissions rates varies from school to school.</p>
<p>It’s just another example of how misleading the published admissions rates can be because they lump everyone together. So much depends on what the school wants and what the applicant has to offer. day vs boarder, FP vs FA, URM vs ORM, artsy vs athletic, math vs humanities, int’l vs domestic, boy vs girl, 9th grade vs 11th grade, etc.</p>
<p>And then there is fit…</p>
<p>I think that just as what we see in the college application scene, individuals are applying to more schools to increase their chances. - another reason why we see an increase of applicants year after year. As a result, we’ll see acceptance rate drop but yield will be harder to manage.</p>
<p>I think once the schools publish the statistics about this year’s pool of applicants, things will be more clear. Right now we’re just guessing.</p>
<p>It would not surprise me, though, to hear of an increase in strong applicants from public schools. I have heard of public school systems proposing to cancel spring sports, to drop elementary foreign languages, and further cuts. After school activities, languages, art, sports and music seem to be the first to go. These kids would be the strong students whose parents believed they’d be fine in a “good public.”</p>
<p>There is a lot to this “flight to quality” that has been mentioned. For the brightest kids, the “extras” like music, sports, theatre, foreign launguage, etc are the only things that keep them in the schools. Once those things are cut, there is really no reason for them stay.</p>
<p>neatoburrito i thought ur son was already at boarding school or is this another son?</p>