Well, she was also quite interested in math–but the boys were certainly a factor in her decision about how far to accelerate. (Also, it wasn’t non-native-English speaking TA’s, it was the math profs who were not native English speakers, in math classes too small to have TA’s.)
My underlying point is that “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.” No one can tell the whole story in a college application. No one outside of admissions can really tell whether mentioning a part of the story would help or hurt.
Thank you, JHS, for placing my comments in context. You accurately connected my recent posts to one component of chancing–namely, how are college classes regarded–just classes taken in the sequence of things, or more than that.