<p>Hey guys. I am a junior, but will be taking my fourth year of Latin next year. I am and have been Latin Club President for 3 years. I actually am quite involved in it. I think Latin looks better than all the other languages because it is usually known to be more difficult with all the conjugations and paradigms. Also, it is rather out of the ordinary. I have had 98's or better every single year and I actually love the class!! I know Harvard and most Ivies like to see 4 years of ONE language. Please post sonme thoughts.... Thanks!</p>
<p>Hahaha. My Latin teacher love to stress the fact that Latin is harder than every other language offered at my school. Personally, I don’t feel like Latin looks better than say French or Spanish.</p>
<p>Hmm, I’ve heard otherwise. I have only 15 kids in my Latin 3, but there are 34 in Spanish 3. That’s why I think it stands out.</p>
<p>HarvardBoundNY - my D #2 is also a junior in3rd year Latin and LOVES LOVES it. However, the school does not have AP Latin nor do they offer the test. Are you planning to take AP Latin test? Just curious, it does not appear to be “popular”.</p>
<p>(afterall it’s a dead language right??)</p>
<p>I personally don’t think it looks any better than Spanish for example. I am fluent in Spanish and will have no difficulty in any country where Spanish is spoken. Can you say the same for Latin? I don’t think so. Fluency in any language is always a plus, but its folly to think that Latin “looks better” than any other language.</p>
<p>Latin most likely looks much better than other languages. It seems like Spanish is the easiest.</p>
<p>Just because a language may be easier to learn doesn’t mean it is one of typically low intelligence. What you said is insulting to anyone who speaks Spanish.</p>
<p>Although English has heavy influences from Latin through French (thank Willy for it,) it is a Germanic language. Have yourself and a German speaker look at an Old English script. The German speaker will probably be able to read it while you can’t.</p>
<p>In my opinion although you’re fluent in Latin, if you don’t take advantage of that “prowess” and learn other languages you’re just squandering your advantage. Maybe Admissions would see it better if you taught yourself Spanish (since you already know half the words and “it’s the language of low intelligence.)”</p>
<p>Greedisgood: YES!!</p>
<p>Short answer: Not really.</p>
<p>I say this as a Harvard freshman who would, in all likelihood, not have gotten into Harvard if she had taken a modern language. However, Latin does tend to provide more opportunities for its students–it has a variety of challenging national tests with which to prove your prowess (e.g. the NLE), it sponsors conventions and competitions which award prizes, etc. (I participated in those.) If you’ve taken advantage of those extracurricular opportunities, Latin will definitely help you more than Spanish. I can’t tell from your post if you’ve done that…but that might not help you any more than being equally accomplished at MUN, though. Maybe a little for being unusual. Being president of your Latin club is good, especially since you started so young. If you wouldn’t have been president of the Spanish club, taking Latin will have helped your resume more than taking Spanish. How’ve you used that presidency, though? Ideally, the position would just be the start of your accomplishments because you led the club so well.</p>
<p>Good luck! And stop dissing modern languages. They’re pretty cool, too. (Also, for a more difficult classical language, try Ancient Greek. I don’t take it, but many of my friends do, and say that Latin is Really Easy in comparison. They all have a sort of love-hate relationship with it.)</p>
<p>Well the club was basically in ruins. I was disgusted that no one was doing anything about it, so I “refurbished” it. We had toga bowling once a month, I provided info for JCL and National Latin Honor Society, and tutored the younger grades.</p>
<p>Wait, that list should be in present tense! Mea culpa!</p>
<p>i feel like you already know the answer to your question, and you’re just posting it to get compliments from people because you think latin is a “superior” language
and unfortunately, latin does not look better than spanish or french for colleges
i was going to take latin, but then i did a little research on it and i discovered that since the language is no longer spoken, colleges don’t favor it among other languages. they want students to learn languages they can use later in their lives, and latin isn’t spoken anywhere in the world. for that reason, i made a very wise decision and took french. if you want to impress colleges, learn spanish in addition to latin, they absolutely LOVE spanish because it’s one of the most widely spoken languages, and it is definitely the most useful.
and you do sound like a ■■■■■, because no one is actually THAT self-absorbed and conceited</p>
<p>OMG, Latin is not DEAD! Over 60% of English comes from Latin. And yes, I did seem a bit arrogant in my prior posts, but I guess I was just studying a lot and was stressed. Latin is typically more difficult than Spanish, and it teaches you way more derivatives and etymological skills than any other language. Why do you think Harvard’s graduation salutation is always in Latin? The people who founded the Ivy League all spoke fluent Latin, dude.</p>
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<p>Actually, it is, by definition. No one speaks it as a native language that we know of. </p>
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<p>Roughly 30% of English derives from Latin directly. Whatever study you’re citing is probably grouping direct Latin influence with langues d’o</p>
<p>Incorrect. Latin prefixes and etymology comprise over half of the English language. Those who are intellectually gifted speak it to other gifted people.</p>
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<p>Interestingly, of the 23 words in your post, 8 of them are of Latin/French origin and 15 are not.</p>
<p>Cool? If I wanted to create a sentence with even bias, I could have. Latin, or any language, does not remain dominant in every sentence, so you’re post is therefore irrelevant.</p>
<p>^So, you’re saying that a post that you purposefully design is more useful than a post you give naturally without knowing it would be counted. You should work on your reasoning a bit.</p>
<p>Yes. It is irrational to give unsubstantiated claims.</p>
<p>Thanks for the laugh. I’m sure your over-bloated ego will be humbled somewhat come April. Cheers!</p>