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[skieurope]

@SJ2727

@lookingforward

For competitive US colleges, you nearly always need foreign language studies, despite fluency in a family language. Getting into college is different than getting your own high school’s diploma.

If the student is international, which is different than growing up in the US with a heritage language, does English not count as the foreign language? I think attending a US high school may actually confuse this issue a bit.

English counts as a foreign language when attending a HS where the language of instruction is not English. If attending a HS where the language of instruction is English, selective colleges expect a FL sequence from all students, including internationals.