<p>I will enter as a Freshman in September! I have taken 4 yrs of French in high school, but was hoping to take French at my local community college the summer following my freshman year @ Stanford as it might cover the requirement. Therefore, should I still take the placement test offered from June 16-30, 2008? Thanks!</p>
<p>You should have taken SAT II in June... Too late now...</p>
<p>you should try to take the placement tests. Its not very hard especially if all you want is to get out of the language req. and you've taken 4 yrs + community college. As for transfer credit, thats iffy. If you're confident in your French, I don't see why you wouldn't just take the placement test</p>
<p>Konda and nngmm, I have studied chinese and Japanese during high school and want to keep continuing at college so I wouldnt forget. also, I like to take it easy the first year for adjustment purpose. do you think it is possible to take two languages at Stan? is it too rigorus with all the required courses? maybe I should not challenge myself and take easier level.
What should I do? also I am thing about majoring in Econ. Is there Business Econ major at undergraduate level? thanks</p>
<p>from what I've heard, lang classes are pretty intense (they meet every day). Stanford has a very long "shopping" period (when you can attend classes without registering for them, just to try them out). You could try to start with both, and see how it goes... I don't have any practical knowledge in this area though...</p>
<p>thanks. can anyone give some other inputs?</p>
<p>Yeah, you could take two languages. I wouldn't guess you'd come out fluent in them both, but if you had prior knowledge in one of them, I bet you could come out speaking that one really well and the other one at least serviceably.</p>
<p>It would probably be difficult to take them both at the same time, however. My guess would be they would tend to overlap in the timeslots in which they'd be offered (prob. 9 am). Likewise, it would take up 10 units of your schedule, close to 2/3rds of your courseload, a lot for courses that aren't in your major.</p>
<p>One option would be to take the regular first year language classes in whatever lanuage it is you want to learn and then to take conversation classes in the languages you know but want to maintain. Conversation classes are 1 unit classes that meet once a week for a relatively short period of time and give you the chance to speak the language, watch movies, talk about stuff relating to the culture, etc. They're pass/fail, so there's not a lot of pressure, and it's a good way to keep from losing all the hard work you put into those languages in high school.</p>
<p>As for your question about a business Econ major, the short answer is no, it doesn't really exist. There's a traditional Econ major, lots of math, problem solving, some finance (but more from an academic than a practical perspective). Then there's Management, Science, and Engineering, which is technically an engineering degree, but gives you exposure to things a little more mainstream business, accounting, analytics, etc.</p>
<p>Which is better for you really depends on your goal. What you want to do when you graduate, do you want to go to grad. school, etc. Take some of both and see which you like more and then run with it.</p>
<p>thanks alot dock for your helpful reply:)</p>