<p>Whats with the four semesters worth of foreign language requirements? It seems a little weird to only have one semester of english requirement but have four semesters worth of foreign language. Anyone else have any thoughts?</p>
<p>that’s only CAS. i think Tisch, Gallatin and Steinhardts such as myself only have one semester of proficiency. </p>
<p>i totally bombed out of Elementary Chinese I though, ughhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>I feel like its going to kill my gpa… I barely got by with B’s in spanish in high school. I want to take arabic but I feel like i’ll have a hard time even passing and it’ll kill m gpa</p>
<p>you can reduce how many semesters you have to take a language if you can study an SAT II in Spanish over the summer and test out. if you do really well (i think over a 600 or 630, don’t quote me on the numbers) you can test out entirely.</p>
<p>we have lots of languages here: [NYU</a> > CAS > MAP](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/cas/map/pda/components.html#foreignlanguage]NYU”>http://www.nyu.edu/cas/map/pda/components.html#foreignlanguage)</p>
<p>and here’s the testing requirements: [NYU</a> | CAS | Freshman Orientation | Important Information about Placement/Proficiency Examinations](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/cas/orientation/placement.html]NYU”>http://www.nyu.edu/cas/orientation/placement.html)</p>
<p>if you’re not doing anything this summer, grab an SAT II Spanish book and study. you might be able to save yourself four semesters of boredom.</p>
<p>then take Arabic pass/fail as an elective.</p>