<p>Its almost senior year for me and that means college applications are coming up. Now, I've run into what seems to be a personal gripe about this whole application process, and that is that some of the schools I plan on applying to require at least two years of foreign language. Throughout high school, I've completed all of the AP Math & Science courses that have been offered at my school (want to study engineering), and I've only taken one year of Spanish which I despised. </p>
<p>I remember absolutely nothing, and now I'm forced to spend the rest of my summer taking two semesters of Spanish 2 online along with two college courses that I'm currently taking. Just taking another online class really bothers me, I've taken one too many and thought I was done going through phone calls with teachers and whatnot. If I'm already fluent in another language (Lithuanian), would they still require the two years? Should I just take the class?</p>
<p>The famous “language proficiency” requirement is for college students, not high school students. You can prove your Lithuanian fluency in college and they will take it, as long as they teach a class in that subject [I know Columbia does]</p>
<p>I asked my guidance counselor about this. Even if you know English, French, Latin, Cantonese, and Malay perfectly, you need to have taken whatever language requirement a college has in the form of high school courses. That means you have to take those Spanish classes.</p>
<p>@ArtsyGirl13: I haven’t head of a college requiring a certain amount of foreign language classes, ** they simply recommend [rather heavily] that you do so **</p>