Spanish was mandatory for my for 3 years of elementary school and 3 years of middle school. I came out of that without even the requisite knowledge for forming basic sentences. My high school German classes were better, but only a little better. It takes a ton of self-study to really learn a language rather than just passing classes.

That said, I agree that she could probably get into Stanford and it probably wouldn’t be as difficult for her as she supposes. She is portrayed as a genius specifically with languages that one time with the French exchange students after all.