Very worried about college

havenoidea
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:49:34 +0000

If you’ve maxed out your school’s Spanish offerings, I don’t think colleges expect you to find a way to continue that language. If you are interested in foreign service though, consider another language.

Re, American, they too have a very well-respected school of international service (top 10). With your high ACT, assuming a good application, you may get significant merit aid there. Last year, they gave 20k per year plus 10k per year if you apply to and are accepted to honors. I’m not sure what our S’s unweighted gpa was at the time he was accepted with the 20k (didn’t finish honors app) but he had senioritis and got at least a couple, maybe 3?, Bs 1st semester which would have lowered his 9-11 grade ~ 3.8 UW gpa (34 ACT). Anyway, AU might be a good school to look at. If you can visit, that’s a way to show interest. We visited over the summer when there wasn’t a tour and just left a card with his name, etc. we had called and they told us to do that.