<p>I guess it can be a hook during admissons, but there is no question like "how many languages do u speak" on the applications...</p>
<p>That’s what the essay is for.</p>
<p>Exactly, either use the essay or the portion of the application that says something like, “Is there anything else you want us to know?”</p>
<p>Make sure it is on the “brag sheet” that you fill out for your guidance counselor. Or take the subtle approach and ask your GC what the best way is to let colleges know that you know 5 languages. 
You can also consider submitting a resume in addition to your applications, and you can mention it there. (This is particularly helpful if your ECs don’t fit comfortably on the Common App.)</p>
<p>Yes, definitely write about it in one of your essays. And if you’re absolutely fluent in those languages, that is a pretty unique hook!</p>
<p>The essay should really tell them about YOU. IDK if writing about such a topic can really reveal yourself to the admissions committee. So yeah, either use an essay or add it in the additional info section</p>
<p>Make sure you have the AP/SAT subject tests to back up that claim, and then make sure to bring it out on your application. :)</p>
<p>there are no tests for half of them, and i don’t have time to take spanish ap test (i’m in ap class right now) and I doubt I will do very well on german test since I took it in middle school (5 years)</p>
<p>And I am fluent in 3, studying/can speak and understand 2 others</p>
<p>If you can’t do well on the AP test, you don’t speak the language. The AP language tests are like a third grade quiz for anyone who knows the language.</p>
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<p>There are AP tests, and if you can’t make those, there are subject tests. I believe there are also other assessments you can find for other languages. I would echo that if you cannot ace an AP or SAT subject test, you are not fluent in the language.</p>
<p>“If you can’t do well on the AP test, you don’t speak the language. The AP language tests are like a third grade quiz for anyone who knows the language.”</p>
<p>not nescessarily, like with spanish for instance, there are multiple dialects and the informal, slang, conversational spanish that’s spoken at home is much different than the spanish on the AP spanish test- it’s learned-in-school spanish, definitely. there are people who are fluent in english and get 1’s on AP lang and AP comp, you know. i know at least three people who are fluent in spanish yet did not do well on the AP or the subject test. my dad, who’s first language was spanish and is fluent, failed his spanish classes in high school because he wasn’t so good with grammar. same goes for my ex boyfriend and french- it’s the grammar, the structure, the rules that got them.</p>
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<p>Yes, I know, but this is CC and I’ll bet my last dollar the OP is applying to selective schools. A competitive student at these should have done very well in AP language tests if they are highlighting their language ability.</p>
<p>Growing up in a bilingual country and immigrating to the USA would give fluency in three languages almost for free. That’s great but it’s not strong evidence of ability as a language scholar.</p>
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<p>Not really. Different countries sometimes have different Spanish vocabulary and often pronounce things differently, but they’re almost always written the same and are almost always understood. </p>
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<p>Except they gauge two completely different things and have two completely different standards. A major part of the AP Spanish test as of last year was completing a dialogue in Spanish, that in English would be something like:</p>
<p>“Voice: Hi Steve, it’s John. I really would like to start a club in my school this year. What should I do to start it?”</p>
<p>and your job is to say something like</p>
<p>“You: Hi John. You should go to the student activities center and talk to Mrs. Jones.”</p>
<p>The AP English tests are obviously more complicated.</p>
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<p>I don’t think you can call yourself fluent if you don’t know the grammar of a language. I know what you’re saying but maybe there should be a term like “conversationally fluent” to better describe it.</p>
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<p>So…the essence of a language?</p>