college's requirement for foreign language

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<p>Do colleges have certain requirements for foreign language? The high school here requires two years of foreign language study to graduate, however, I heard that some colleges require three years of foreign language study, is it true? Any one know if colleges have any special requirement? Does it look bad on your resume when you only have two years of foreign language study?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance .</p>

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<p>this is from the admissions website for the recommended curriculum of applicants applying as stanford freshmen</p>

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Foreign Language: three or more years of the same foreign language. Your study of a foreign language ought to include the development of four basic skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension.

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<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/applying/1_2a1_acaprep.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/applying/1_2a1_acaprep.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>as far as the actual requirement for stanford once you get in, you have to take a year of a language, or you can test out with a high enough SAT II score or AP score of 4 or 5. you can look up the specifics online too. </p>

<p><a href="http://language.stanford.edu/requirement/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://language.stanford.edu/requirement/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks a lot for the information.</p>