<p>On Wellesley's website, it says that if you're going into languages or literature, they want you to have Latin or Greek in addition to a modern language. How many years of a classical language do they want?</p>
<p>you don't. They may prefer that, but I was accepted as an English major with four years of French under my belt and zero Classical languages.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely for the English major there is no foreign language requirement. Also, you don't declare your major until fall of your sophomore year at the very earliest (if you plan on going abroad). And as long as you can complete the required units, you can always switch your major.</p>
<p>Could you clarify the context? Are they asking incoming students to have completed this kind of language preparation or graduating students to have done so? (Not that either scenario makes much sense considering that few--if any--language and/or lit majors require this kind of linguistic expertise, and it seems ridiculous for certain language/lit majors.) I can't imagine the rationale behind asking students for coursework that the departments don't require.</p>