<p>From my understanding, Clemson requires three years of a foreign language in high school. I only have two years of spanish. Is this waiverable?</p>
<p>Didn’t seem to affect my son’s admission… anyone else?</p>
<p>well I took french for 3 years so I can’t say whether it affects you or not</p>
<p>Do engineering majors have to continue with a language at Clemson?</p>
<p>btw, S visited Clemson for the first time this afternoon - just spoke to him and he is now 100% sure he’ll accept his place for the fall :)</p>
<p>^
Forgot to add that S had 3 years of Spanish in high school</p>
<p>I believe that only BA degrees (in general, I’m sure there are exceptions) are required to take a foreign language while at Clemson. I’m glad that your son enjoyed his visit.</p>
<p>engineers are not required to take a foreign language</p>
<p>How much schedule flexibility do you have? Especially as a freshmen. </p>
<p>I am currently majoring in English but I think there is a strong chance that may change after a semester or two. I’d prefer to mainly just take general education courses to start. Something like English, Math, Natural Science, History, and Literature in the fall. Are they strict about when you take classes or could you hold off the foreign language for awhile?<br>
Also, how hard are the 201 and 202 foreign language courses?</p>
<p>I thought that I had a lot of flexibility with my schedule as an engineer but I was wrong and since I wanted to learn a language even though I was not required too, I took an extra chinese class. However, I found out that you will KILL yourself by taking 18-19 credits per semester. If a class is not required by your major, don’t take it unless you can handle the coursework.</p>
<p>But anyways on to tigerfan55’s question, I’d imagine there’s a lot of flexibility with your schedule, that’s probably just a suggested plan. I suggest taking some time and planning out what your next 4 years are going to look like if you’re going to deviate from the suggested course plan.</p>
<p>Yes, I do want to take it easy on the credits in my first semester. I really only want 15-16 fall of next year. Plus, I am not sure what major I’ll end up pursuing so I just want to take general education classes at first.</p>
<p>When you say you did not have much flexibility, are you primarily referring to engineering majors?</p>
<p>yep that was just directed at engineering majors (well and that’s just my opinion, there’s probably someone out there that can handle all that work)</p>
<p>pja213: Back to your original question. My OOS son (Engineering major) was in the same situation with only 2 yrs of Spanish. He asked his HS guidance counselor to write some verbiage on his recommendation form explaining that 2 yrs of a foreign language met the college prep reqt. for his state. If you’re OOS you should be ok. If your in-state you might have to take another year of Spanish.</p>
<p>if you don’t meet the requirements a good idea would probably to have a guidance counselor to write something explaining why you do not have 3 years of a foreign language as GA_Dad suggested.</p>
<p>Thanks for the knowledge</p>
<p>We asked this same question and were told that meeting your own state’s requirement for foreign language would be taken into consideration, particularly if the classes that replaced foreign language were rigorous. My daughter dropped foreign language after meeting the requirement sophmore year so she could persure her fine arts concentration in photography. All her other classes were honors or APs. Even at the Ivies, we were told this would not negatively impact her. She does plan to take foreign language in college.</p>