<p>Don’t go back and take a language, it’ll be so much harder and why take a class you hate to look good for colleges? I took Spanish until 4, but I’m not going to study Spanish in college so after being relatively proficient in it I’m not going to take AP Spanish. Do what prepares you best long term, not what can get you into a college short-term.</p>
<p>Well, my only dillema is that princeton and columbia for example (I believe harvard too) requires 3 or 4 years. I was pretty much just wondering how hard that is enforced.</p>
<p>^^ They probably all “recommend” however many years.</p>
<p>I think it’s sort of risky (and somewhat presumptuous, TBH) for you to think that they’ll excuse your choice to take only two years on account of a personal preference. These colleges are selective enough that one shouldn’t make choices that are directly contrary to what they have stated they want in an applicant.</p>
<p>I’m not saying I did this out of personal preference. I did this because I was always told I only needed 2 years of foreign language, and then recently I saw something saying I needed 3-4. I understand they are extremely good schools, and therefore very selective. Plus I know my chances of admission are already quite slim. I was just asking how strict are they on this. I could maybe go back and do another level or 2 of foreign language, but I’d really rather not if I don’t have to. Especially since the foreign language department at my school is miserable.</p>
<p>What about taking 4 years of french, but only taking regular french even though honors french is offered? </p>
<p>My son is in 9th grade and hates languages and does not do well in them. He would have to devote a large amount of time to honors french. He does have 5 honors classes this year including 2 math classes. He will take 2 APs next year, 4 APs junior year, and 5 aps senior year. He plans on going into robotic engineering. Will not taking honors french have much impact?</p>
<p>doberhound, if you are dropping Spanish to take take advanced math and science classes eg. calc III or quantum mechanics then you should be fine because you dropped Spanish to take hard classes in other subjects that are more applicable to your intended major.</p>
<p>Will the mother tongue of a student for whom English is not a native language, count as a foreign language while applying to universities?</p>
<p>Well, my school doesn’t offer anything besides ap calc ab/bc, but I could maybe get into a university class. Also I doubt I’ll have the opportunity to take quantum mechanics (unless I try to self sutdy it), but I’d be able to take both parts of AP physics C. Is that still legit?</p>
<p>^I agree. Also, how is being fluent in other languages “irrelevant”? After all, don’t we take foreign language classes to LEARN new languages? Or has that too been taken over by superficial app who***?</p>
<p>Who said it is irrelevant? My thoughts are that since my school’s language program is an absolute joke I won’t actually learn the language… I’ll just be stuck in a worthless class where I can’t study advanced subjects that I’m interested in. I’m already billingual, in english and spanish, and I can even speak some latin (obviously I can’t converse seeing as it is a classical and dead language).</p>
<p>I had taken five years of french in middle school and 9th and 10th grade. I got 90% in my exams but I had to quit french in junior year because I moved countries and IB french requires you to know how to speak the language, something which I have never learnt because the Indian curriculum only focuses on reading and writing. So the school made me take IB ab initio Spanish instead. Am I screwed for admissions? Will it help that I know 3 other languages fluently (English, Hindi and my mother tongue)apart from french and spanish?</p>