<p>I am putting up this question for my friend who is an International Student. She did not take foreign language at her CCC because she went to HS in Japan. However, while trying to complete her Berkeley Application, she is confused on what to put for her foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>THere is a box wheter it says that I have fulfilled 3 years of HS foreign language requirement. Should she just check this? Anyone knows? Should she ask the berkeley admission rep?</p>
<p>haha, put 19 years of foreign language.</p>
<p>I'm also international student but this wasn't my case because i didn't have a chance to finish high school in my country. My friend (from China) told me that he didn't have to take any other language class since he graduated from high school in his country. If this is your friend's case, you can advice her to contact her counselor and inquire which proof she need to submit to fulfill this requirement (most likely her high school diploma) and how she should fill out the Berkeley update form.</p>
<p>AdamantineX,</p>
<p>If she's completing her GE requirements through IGETC, then I would put something like I've mentioned here on the board before w/AP credits or high school foreign language classes, only for course name I would use "High School Instruction in Japanese." You can find in the IGETC requirements that this is a suitable satisfaction for the foreign language requirement. But because it's not an option listed on myBerkeleyApplication, I'd make a note of it at the bottom. I would only check the box if she actually completed 3 years of foreign language classes in high school, which could be English; it seems like that's asking a pretty specific question to me.</p>
<p>If she's fulfilling the L&S Breadth requirements, though, I couldn't find any confirmation that instruction in a foreign language is suitable. It seems like a no-brainer, though, so I'd advise her to contact someone in undergraduate advising or admissions and ask them if that works. I would ask this contact how to fill it out on the form, and then I'd leave a note regarding her contacting the school to maker sure it satisfied the requirements.</p>
<p>yea she is completing the IGETC requirement. On monday, she will probably call the berkeley admission. I will let you all know what they want us to do.</p>
<p>Thank you though for your helps. If she cannot get connected to the admission office, I would just tell her to do what GZOT said.</p>
<p>I found that in cases where you lived in the country for a certain amount of time (it was something like 5-7 years) you could not clear the foreign language requirement with that language. I believe the big issue was chinese students trying to use chinese for the requirement which was their native language to begin with.</p>
<p>where did you hear about this?</p>
<p>What I was told and I hope this could be informative to you all:</p>
<p>The rep said that my friend who graduated high school in japan cannot use Japanese and English as her foreign language. She could use another language that she she might have taken back in Japan but not Japanese.</p>
<p>AdamantineX,</p>
<p>I'd have her talk to a counselor at her community college. As I understand it, the community college certifies IGETC completion, the only thing the UC does is accept it. Now, Berkeley for instance doesn't have to accept her experience towards L&S Breadth requirements, but if her CC says she's IGETC certified, then she's IGETC certified.</p>
<p>Here's my school's IGETC sheet, which lists "satisfactory completion of 2 or more years of formal schooling at the 6th grade or higher in an institution where the language of instruction is not English" as a demonstration of competency for the foreign language requirement:</p>
<p>--Joe</p>
<p>Yea, she is planning to talk to her counselor asap. She plans to show her transcript to the counselor and hopefully her foreign language requirements will be fulfilled.</p>