Hi,
I am entering my senior year of high school, and I am considering applying to Emory ED.
I have a 34 ACT and will finish with 13 total AP classes. I am currently scheduled to take AP Spanish, and I have already taken Spanish 1, 2H, and 4H in previous years. I am considering switching out of AP Spanish to take another AP class, but I wanted to know how much weight Emory puts on 4 years of foreign language vs. 3 years.
Emory’s 4 year language recommendation refers to level completed not necessarily number of years in high school. If you have completed the fourth level of high school Spanish, you have met the recommendation. Nevertheless, a downside of not taking AP Spanish is losing out on the possible college language credit hours, which can reduce how much language you need to take to meet any college language requiremetns at Emory.
@drusba : At Emory, I think they would still have to take 2 semesters worth of a language even if the student takes and scores 5 on AP. Not taking AP could affect the level at which they are placed if they decided to continue Spanish however. It may contribute to graduation credits, but not that particular gen. ed, I’ll need to look it up, because it is a weird and confusing policy with regards to some languages and socials sciences. It is also possible that they may only have to do one semester. I just know that Emory is one of the weird ones among it and its near peers that will not wholesale exempt students from the language requirement after high passing AP or IB analogs.
@bernie12 One thing we can likely agree on is that Emory is near the bottom of the list when it comes to clarity for courses you actually need to take or the effect of AP courses. My understanding may not be correct, but I was under the impression that a 5 in Spanish would get you 3 hours credit (although Emory limits AP credits to possibly 12 hours) and would count as one toward the two required sequential language courses needed in the Humanities, Arts and Language General Education requirement.
This is pretty clear - https://apply.emory.edu/pdf/AP_and_IB_Policies_2018.pdf
Why don’t you think a 4 counts the same as a 5?
@ljberkow I’m sorry but to me that is not that clear because they give lots of info on chinese and relatively little on the others. Furthermore, with Chinese, you can’t count the 3 towards the GER. With the others it is not made very clear if it counts towards the GER or not. I am assuming they do and then they have to do only 1 semester. With Chinese, I guess you still have to do 2? I don’t call that clarity…
4 vs. 5 just recently started to matter in some departments apparently. The departments decided on that. Most courses still take both but others may have become more restrictive to.protect enrollment numbers or because of data on performance and later courses.
@drusba : I believe you are correct except Chinese lol.
This is where I believe it gets murky. If you get the 4/5, you get credit tof the 202 course and then default to the following for Emory:
Students must earn credit for two sequential HAL courses in a single foreign language. Each student must pursue study of a language other than the student’s native language. Students may satisfy the remaining two course requirements by taking any two HAP courses, any two additional HAL courses (where one of the HAL courses is beyond the elementary level (200 level or above)), or one HAP and one HAL course.
That second HAP course can come from just about any Humanities offering.
Some courses used to be credited with a 4/5 are now only 5. Emory got much tougher with the Class of 2022.