<p>My current IB schedule is:</p>
<p>Maths HL
Physics HL
Chemistry HL
Economics HL
English SL
Italian Ab Initio</p>
<p>Is this 'rigorous' or 'demanding' enough (I am aiming for Ivy League schools). Also will it be a problem that I did 2 years of Italian in Grades 9&10 but only doing Italian Ab Initio. I need to have done 3 years to qualify for Italian SL, and the only other beginner language is Indonesian.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Yes, I don’t see how you could have done anything more rigorous within the IB. 4 HLs is very demanding, and colleges know that.</p>
<p>I’m probably going to drop one of the HL’s to SL later though. I’m more worried about the Italian though. After two years, can I really still be considered a beginner?</p>
<p>It probably has to do with how the organization of language classes works at your school. For instance, what are the other people doing that were in your Italian classes pre-DP? Did they all go to Ab initio as well? Were you with any of the kids who are in SL/HL Italian now? Depending on what class you were in before the DP, it may or not have been feasible to go to regular Italian, and I think admissions officers, having no way of knowing this for sure, will give you the benefit of the doubt.</p>