middlebury for trilinguals --> quadlinguals?

Klink
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:16:39 +0000

I think what matters most is not how many languages you speak but the effort that you’ve put into learning them. Someone who is fluent in two languages because they were raised bilingually (in my opinion) won’t be as impressive as someone who started learning a language in high school and got an 800 on the SATII. Showing that you’ve done more than just Spanish classes throughout high school is a big help (national exams, self-studying, tutoring, going abroad, starting cultural clubs). The one year of French won’t be that helpful, unless you do really well on the SAT I’d say. I know some people who took beginning language as seniors in high school just for an easy, senior-year slacker class that would boost their final GPA.