<p>I've looked for the language requirements for Ivy colleges. Princeton and Harvard seem to encourage 4 years. I can't find anything for Yale or Brown.</p>
<p>How necessary is 4 years of language for an unhooked applicant? I'm currently in Spanish 3, but I need to take an art class next year to fulfill graduation requirements. </p>
<p>Thanks for any advice.</p>
<p>Absolutely take 4 years for ALL of the Ivy’s. It is not “mandatory” but you will be up against a VERY strong applicant pool at all of them.</p>
<p>Brown encourages 4 years of language. In fact they would admit someone with 4 years before someone with 3 years, even if say the person with 4 years got a B in it. It’s very important to take as many years possible anyways. And it looks good to all colleges. Not just the Ivies.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help :)</p>
<p>FAQ, use the Search function for ‘Foreign Languages’ and you will find many threads asking this question.</p>
<p>At my school, it’s impossible for 90% of students to take 4 years of the same language because of the fact that Latin is taken for 3 years by all students who enter in 7th or 8th grade. Nonetheless, plenty of students have gotten into Ivies and the like since the late 1800s.</p>
<p>This suggests to me that, Ivies ask, and as others have said, do nearly demand that students, so long as they can, do indeed take 5 years of language, but that they are also quite understanding when students cannot. You did not say enough about your schedule for next year for us to know with perfect certainty if you can. Evaluate your situation.</p>
<p>If your school REQUIRES Latin classes for SEVENTH GRADE, then there are obviously extenuating circumstances.</p>
<p>What about a immigrant who only came to an English-speaking country in his freshman year?
I simply transferred my credits over, but then I realized that on my transcript it says ‘XXX language 10 (11, 12） transferred from other country’, and most importantly, NO LETTER GRADE was assigned to those courses. Would colleges take account of this kind of situation?</p>
<p>My schedule next year:</p>
<p>Multivariable
English AP
Gov AP
Physics AP
Art (this is my graduation requirement)
Cross Country</p>
<p>I’ve only taken three years of Spanish (beginning freshman year). I’m currently enrolled in Spanish 3 honors. I can’t take language next year because I need to fulfill my art class requirement. So I would need to take language or art over summer.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend taking art over the summer if you can (unless you plan on pursuing art or architecture or something like that in college) and then taking a fourth year of Spanish next year, especially since you are only at level 3. Some colleges consider the highest level you reach, not necessarily the number of years in high school you took the language (such as if you had taken it in middle school and were in level 5 this year), but that doens’t seem to be an option here.</p>