middlebury for trilinguals --> quadlinguals?

<p>im applying to middlebury regular decision. i am, possibly, the best spanish student in my school. i speak 3 languages (Cantonese, English, and Spanish) and this year, i'm taking french 1 advanced as a senior.</p>

<p>i was wondering if my aspiration to be fluent in 4 langauges out of college would mean anything when i apply to middlebury?</p>

<p>my spanish teacher wrote an amazing rec for me, ending it by saying i was an extremely talented language student.</p>

<p>aside from the language aspect, i do diversity work around school (racism, sexism, sexual orientation, etc) and i have several active roles (elected/appointed positions) around school.</p>

<p>downfall; weighted GPA = 3.8
SAT = 750/600 M/V
SAT II - 710 spanish, 690 math (planning on studying hardcore for french SAT 2's in dec), but im aiming for a 500 =x would that look bad considering how its my first year?</p>

<p>First off, do not submit an SAT I verbal score of 600 to Middlebury. If you do submit SAT IIs, they should all be in the 700s to be competitive.</p>

<p>The fact that you speak 3 languages is impressive, but you have to realize that Middlebury gets tons of applications from kids who speak multiple languages. Schools with weaker language programs might view this as more of an asset than Middlebury will.</p>

<p>I have the same question about what would be an acceptable SAT score in a language that you haven't studied very long. I'm fluent in Swedish, French, and English (in that order), and self-studying Spanish. I hope I can score in the 700s when I take the Spanish SAT II in December, but if I don't, will it look okay considering the circumstances? I already have an 800 in French and take IB French A1 HL (a course designed for native speakers).</p>

<p>I think what matters most is not how many languages you speak but the effort that you've put into learning them. Someone who is fluent in two languages because they were raised bilingually (in my opinion) won't be as impressive as someone who started learning a language in high school and got an 800 on the SATII. Showing that you've done more than just Spanish classes throughout high school is a big help (national exams, self-studying, tutoring, going abroad, starting cultural clubs). The one year of French won't be that helpful, unless you do really well on the SAT I'd say. I know some people who took beginning language as seniors in high school just for an easy, senior-year slacker class that would boost their final GPA.</p>

<p>To clarify, I haven't taken any Spanish classes in high school. I took "Spanish I" in middle school, but otherwise I'm completely self-taught, and that's why I'm worried that I might score lower on the SAT II than someone who's actually taken classes. I didn't grow up in a bilingual household; my first language in Swedish, and I started learning French at 6 and English at 12.</p>