<p>My son is a rising senior and has a 2130 on the new SAT, and has scored 5's on the AP French, AP Calculus B/C, and AP US History Exams. He also scored 800 on his French SAT II, 740 on the Math SAT II, and a 770 on the US History SAT II. He has virtually no extracurricular activities, except he was selected to attend the Virginia Governor's French Academy for 3 weeks this summer. His GPA is 4.6, weighted, not sure of the unweighted. For some reason, our school district does not put class rank on the final report card, but I believe he is probably 6th or so out of 500.</p>
<p>He is interested currently in majoring in mathematics or computer science, with a double major in French, and maybe picking up a minor in a more esoteric language, such as Arabic. He has the current career goal of becoming a cryptographer with the ability to work in foreign languages, possibly for the CIA or NSA. </p>
<p>Are there any schools you would suggest with excellent foreign language departments, as well as good math and CS departments that he can get into without a ton EC's? We live in Virginia.</p>
<p>How about UVA? It's a great school (top 25) and offers many language programs, including French and Arabic. Furthermore, its location puts it close to DC and all of the internship and career opportunities located there. Finally, its your own state university, so you'll be given preference in admissions, be paying in-state tuition, and might even get some merit aid. I'm not sure what your financial situation is like, so I can't guess, but you might get some need-based too.</p>
<p>UVA is great, just didn't know if he could get in without EC's. It's pretty tough to get in. Plus it isn't cheap. My older son is starting there this fall, and it will cost about 16,500 for room, board, and tuition. Pretty much automatically will go up 10% each year also.</p>
<p>"How about UVA? It's a great school (top 25) and offers many language programs, including French and Arabic. Furthermore, its location puts it close to DC and all of the internship and career opportunities located there."</p>
<p>Wisconsin has a top 10 CS dept (endorsed by Bill Gates himself) and offers the most languages of any school. French is very strong. Double majors are popular.</p>
<p>Middlebury? It has a vast summer language program, so I assume it has some pretty great resources during the year. Of course, you'd have to love being in the middle of nowhere, Vermont.</p>
<p>I don't know if McGill is in your price range, but when it doesn't care at all about ECs, it does have a pretty strong French dept (Montreal is the 2nd biggest French speaking city in the world after all) along with good CS and Math too.</p>
<p>I just went on McGill website. It's 25-32k in Canadian dollars for non Canadians. This includes room and board. Not a great bargain now that the Canadian dollar is strengthening. Looks like a great school, not so cheap.</p>
<p>i've heard good things, living in seattle, about the language program at the UW. it's a big school so research opportunities would probably be available as well. your son could probably get into the honors program there.</p>