I’m planning on applying to Georgetown in the fall, and I’m trying to decide whether to apply to the College or SFS. I’d love to apply to SFS and main component of the school is modern language proficiency. I’m currently in French 4, but I don’t like French very much and if I were to attend SFS, I probably would start a new language. I don’t want to take AP French next year, but I feel like the SFS admissions committee would like to see an AP language. Should I apply to the College because of my lack of an AP language?
I strongly recommend that you just work on getting your French up to snuff and testing out of the modern language proficiency requirement in the SFS. Picking up a new language means you are stuck in a 3 day a week language class for 3 - 3.5 years that fills up a slot on your schedule and takes time away from more worthwhile classes. The SFS is amazing, don’t get me wrong, but by the time you learn a language from scratch at georgetown you will have paid almost $60,000 in tuition on just the language credits alone. There are much cheaper and more effective ways to learn a language. I’m in the SFS now and I didn’t have a foreign language education in high school and I’d say that one of my biggest complaints is that I basically get to take a full semester of electives less than me peers as a result, despite paying the same amount of tuition. If you don’t think your French is going to be that good, apply for the college, if you think you can muscle through and test out - by all means do it. The SFS is amazing, but not knowing a language really gets in the way of enjoying it.