<p>I'm looking to get a BS (bachelors of science) or BA (it doesn't matter really... I need a premed courseload though because I plan to apply to medical school afterwards). What I'm wondering is: are there ANY top universities (top 50? top 75?) that do NOT require proficiency in a foreign language or do not require you to take any foreign language classes in order to graduate? I know that MIT is one, and I think that Brown University does NOT have a *core curriculum<a href="not%20sure%20if%20that%20includes%20foreign%20language%20or%20not">/i</a>, but what about others? Are there any good universities that you can think of without a foreign language requirement? Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Pretty much NO university has a foreign language requirement for graduating..</p>
<p>But ALL good or even decent schools have a foreign language requirement to go to them.</p>
<p>Your not gonna find any even top 200 schools that will let you in without having taken a foreign language, unless that is your a lazy slacker and are on an ed. plan. or IEP or what ever its called.</p>
<p>And no top universities will even let you in if your on one i bet</p>
<p>Do you consider American Sign Language a foreign language?</p>
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Pretty much NO university has a foreign language requirement for graduating..</p>
<p>But ALL good or even decent schools have a foreign language requirement to go to them.</p>
<p>Your not gonna find any even top 200 schools that will let you in without having taken a foreign language, unless that is your a lazy slacker and are on an ed. plan. or IEP or what ever its called.</p>
<p>And no top universities will even let you in if your on one i bet
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<p>Well that was rude. :/ I was disabled, had to withdraw from school (homeschooled though with all necessary documentation), but I only have 5 semesters (2.5 years) of foreign language (Spanish) under my belt... plus some American Sign Language. You don't have to be rude, I'm just trying to figure out what colleges will accept that. Also, I don't want to continue with a foreign language once in college because that is not a particular interest of mine, so I don't want to go anywhere (i.e. Harvard) that has a very strong language requirement.</p>
<p>Nothing I said was rude or inncorrect, if by "disabled" you mean physically disabled, than you would have no need to be on an ed. plan anyway so that wouldn't even relate to you, if by "disabled" you mean you have a "learning disablility" that what I said does pertain to you, and you are by definition lazy, I am a diagnosed dislexic, and have other "learning disablilties" and that never stopped me from accomplishing anything I wanted, its called working harder.........</p>
<p>I disagree with Hostiletakeover; every college I have looked at has a language requirement for graduation (I haven't looked carefully at MIT or Brown).</p>
<p>Bye rude face.</p>
<p>and plenty of undergraduate research opportunities for wannabe MDs.</p>
<p>Princeton has a foreign language requirement for graduating unless you are enrolled in the School of Engineering.</p>
<p>Brown has an open curriculum.</p>
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I disagree with Hostiletakeover; every college I have looked at has a language requirement for graduation (I haven't looked carefully at MIT or Brown).
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<p>Funny... none of the colleges I looked at had a foreign language requirement for graduation. It might depend on the major/program you're applying to.</p>
<p>I think it's close to half and half. The ones with easy distribution or nothing (Brown, Rochester, Rice, Amherst) have no requirement for languages, the ones with cores (Columbia, Chicago) generally will. The ones in the middle go either way (Princeton and Cornell require, I think, but a lot of others don't).</p>
<p>And hostiletakeover was a bit rude.</p>
<p>It depends on the major/school within each college. Cornell arts and sciences require a language, but the engineering school does not. Generally very few engineering programs include a language, while most liberal arts programs with a core curriculum do.</p>
<p>University of Rochester has no foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>Bill, There are two separate issues here, what you need to get in and what you need once you’re in.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any colleges that have a carved in stone language requirement as part of their admissions policy. There may be some, but among the 30 or so colleges that my son researched none had a black and white requirement. Most, if not all, however, listed language as a recommendation, often stipulating 3-4 years of a single language. </p>
<p>He was also told by an admissions director at a highly selective university that it’s just taken for granted that admittees would be proficient in a foreign language because most of them are. You have to consider the competition. </p>
<p>So, if you are not inclined or interested in studying language you need to compensate for it in some other way. Lack of language skills is not necessarily a deal breaker, but it’s an uphill battle. 2.5 years of Spanish would be borderline for a highly selective college, but you may be able to explain or balance this deficiency in your application. </p>
<p>Second, what you do after you’re admitted. My son wasn’t thrilled with the idea of taking a foreign language at college, both because he had other priorities and because he knew it would be a struggle. So he looked for colleges that either had totally open curricula or no foreign language requirement. Among these are Brown and Amherst (no requirements, except as part of your major) and Williams (no language requirement).</p>
<p>Those colleges that have language requirements usually ask you to take a proficiency test or use your SAT, AP or IB scores as a placement determiner. You either place out or have to take the equivalent of 1 or 2 years of language study; it varies by school.</p>
<p>OP - although you feel you have no need to take any further foreign language, and it appears as if there are programs out there that allow you to graduate without it, why not consider Latin, especially if med school is your goal? My daughter had one year of Latin as a freshman in high school before they cut the program and she started over with French. To this day, she still remembers enough Latin to help her figure out the meanings of words. And I've heard it's an excellent language to take for people preparing for med school - it's not necessarily taught as a conversational language, so the benefits of it are different than other conversational languages.</p>
<p>Amherst, Brown, Grinnell all have open curriculums, ie. you aren't REQUIRED to take any classes. This equates to not needing to take any foreign language classes.</p>
<p>Yale has a foreign language requirement for graduation. It is also impossible to "place" out of it based on previous knowledge/test scores. Even if you test into the very highest level of proficiency (fluent) like my roommate did, you still have to take one semester of language. If you start from the beginning of a language, you need 3 semester to graduate. They REALLY enforce this...there's no getting around it.</p>
<p>This is what is wrong with America today: thinking you don't need another language.</p>
<p>Penn has a foreign language requirement and I'm glad it does.</p>
<p>"I dont know of any colleges that have a carved in stone language requirement as part of their admissions policy."</p>
<p>For a student to be admitted to a Florida public college or university, the State of Florida requires successful completion of certain high school courses including a minimum of two years of the same foreign language</p>
<p>That is what's wrong with America today? Really? So if everyone was inspired to become bilingual, that would make our country perfect?
Another thing wrong with America: People trying to sum up what's wrong with America in one sentence.
Have a nice day :-D</p>