Hi everyone,
My high school sophomore is extremely interested in languages - she is taking two of them right now. She is thinking of becoming a language teacher.
We don't have a lot of money and she has never gone on one of those fancy programs of any sort, but I would love to send her on a Spanish immersion program next summer if affordable - although neither she nor I is completely sold on the idea of her being away from home for a long time, so that, coupled with the affordability issue, means that it may not be realistic. However, I'd like to look into them just to see, and wanted to know if there is one that the CC parents recommend. (Her other language right now is Latin so not really an immersion program for that - she may pick up a third language next year if she can fit it but she is decent at Spanish now so an immersion program in Spanish would probably be the most enjoyable.)
We would *not* be doing this for college admission purposes, and in fact I've heard that sometimes it's not such a good idea to talk about these on applications/to admissions officers because it gives them the impression that the kid is well off if they can afford these - but maybe I'm wrong here and if I am, please do let me know.
Thanks for any advice about the program itself or my possibly erroneous assumptions on the latter front.
BTW, not sure it makes any difference for the purposes of this discussion, but in case it does - right now her GPA is just about a hair below a 4.0 and she took the SATs at age 12 for CTY and qualified (but didn't go), so she is likely looking at a more selective college if her grades stay the same and scores are still high when SATs are retaken.
RtR
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