Thanks for creating the thread for us in the 430-437 range in order to share strategies to improve CRS

. I feel like we are in a "gray area", not knowing anymore if we will get direct ITA before our next "happy" birthday...
Learning (or Improving) French could be a way to get out of this "gray area", but it has to be a really intensive short-therm course (5 days, 2 hrs/day, for two months)... before reaching the B-day date. After that, getting those points could also help to compensate the 5 points loss.