<p>By the time i graduate, I'll have taken 4 years of Spanish (after four years in middle school, and ending in AP Spanish) as well as 4 years of Chinese. Will colleges care/be impressed by this?</p>
<p>Side question that's completely unrelated: Will colleges care about gym grades if they aren't averaged into overall GPA (they just show up on the transcript)?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>I would say so. It shows consistency. By the time I graduate I will have 5 years of Spanish (AP level as well) and 2 years of French. But it would be more impressive if it correlated with your major.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about minoring in Chinese studies. Is that close enough? Thanks for responding by the way.</p>
<p>It’s good, but it may not be as uncommon as you think. </p>
<p>I hindsight, I think having studied so many languages before college may have gotten my daughter some scholarship offers and honors invitations at some schools (though, I must admit, not at all of them), but I don’t think it got her into any colleges she wasn’t otherwise well qualified for.</p>
<p>Colleges get a applications from lots of different kinds of schools with lots of different course options. I honestly don’t think that they have a preference for two languages over one, because there are many fabulous candidates who don’t have an option to take two languages.</p>
<p>There are literally thousands of posts on this site by kids who are asking whether X or Y will give them an edge. IMO, it’s not X or Y that matters, it’s what you do with X or Y. What colleges care about is a record of accomplishment and thoughtful essays. If learning two languages was important to you, and you can articulate that well, then it’s a plus. </p>
<p>Gym grades shouldn’t be a deal breaker, but what’s your worry about it?</p>