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Barnard has them take a language placement test, which I think is a good idea. Three years of high school Spanish got her placed into elementary Spanish II. That is similar to my own experience. I had four years of high school Spanish and I took Spanish I in college because I was worried that I wouldn't have learned the same basic vocabulary that was expected. I was glad I did that because we covered in one semester everything we had covered in four years of Spanish in high school.
Overall though, I would say the level of rigor in all of her classes far surpasses the level of rigor in 90% of my classes at the state university where I went. My classes were all about "read the book, listen to the lecture, regurgitate the information on an exam." Hers are very different, strongly geared toward more critical thinking and analysis of the subject matter, not just regurgitating what she read and heard in lecture.
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