Hey guys I have a question that may seem pretty obvious, but I cannot find the answer anywhere.
My question is, if you never took a foreign language in high school, are you ALWAYS required to take it in college as part of your general education required courses? Or does it vary from school to school? If it does vary, what is most common?
Please let me know ASAP because even though I have already been accepted into a four year university, I sign up for summer session community college courses tomorrow and I am going to enroll in a language if it will save me from taking it during the year.
No. Not required by most schools. Why don’t you call the college you plan to attend and ask? Or look at their web site?
My problem with that is, I was accepted into multiple schools, and each school website states that the language requirement must be met in high school for admission…which doesn’t even make sense since I was accepted without it. I am so confused. I haven’t even decided which school to actually enroll in yet.
What are those schools?
If they are the University of California campuses then you may have to meet their A-G subject requirements, otherwise they may rescind your admittance.
If you are an international student then foreign language is probably not required by many schools because English is already your foreign language.
I am from California, so not international. I didn’t apply to any UCs though. I got into University of North Carolina Greensboro, George Washington University, American University, University of Richmond, George Mason, University of Maryland College Park, Adelphi, NYU, and Santa Clara University.
Unless you wrote on your applications the specific foreign language classes you planned to take during your 12th grade but you cannot show them on your final transcript, I doubt that this is an issue. You have been accepted, they won’t ask anymore from you.
Look up each college’s graduation requirements (you will have to google this) to see what the core or distribution requirements are for your school (school of liberal arts, science, engineering, etc) to find out exactly what is needed to graduate.