You hear a lot about “rigor” of students’ curriculum as a big part of what colleges are looking for–often that is discussed as the number of AP classes, or STEM classes (“we want to see students taking calculus”). How would college admission officers view a HS student who took both Latin and Greek, plus another modern foreign language? Our daughter will have taken AP Latin, AP French, as well as two+ years of Ancient Greek during high school.
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Greek is hard, in fact no comparison to the Romance Languages. I would expect colleges know that.
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They’d assume she is interested in languages. I’d assume so too. Is she?
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If she’s interested in classics, she has definitely shown that, but she still needs to have taken other serious courses.
She is on track for taking the standard array of AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP history and government classes, but is not a straight-A student in STEM (more of an A- ish) nor will she have the stellar SAT subject test scores and what-have-you that many STEM-heavy applicants likely have. Her interests are in politics and history, but she enjoys languages.
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It would definitely show both intellectual curiosity and rigor.
Two foreign languages at AP level is always welcome for top students applying to top colleges. Adding a less commonly taught language that shows initiative, academic engagement, and ability, definitely helps at most top schools (nescac, ivy+, etc.)
How much it’s help her would depend on her major. For all humanities, definitely. If she wants to study comp lit, classical studies, archeology, romance languages/french, art history, absolutely.
Of course it doesn’t make anyone a ‘shoo in’ at schools with 20% or less admit rates, but it, I’ll definitely create interest.
Ancient Greek is actually more ‘fun’ than Latin in my opinion 
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D would agree with you (re Greek that is). ^^
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I’d expect and top colleges will look for high scores on humanities-SATS and SAT2s.
Top colleges won’t care about Sat subjects in the sciences. They WILL expect 700+ in French, Latin, and English literature and/or a history test.
Note that honors calculus and honors physics would be fine, and AP calculus ab as well as AP physics 1 would be considered excellent.
She should parlay her interest in/prowess in languages by indicating them as double majors or minors on her application, for all colleges that admitted to arts&science or Liberal Arts it will not cause any subsequent problem.
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