The A-G requirement says it requires at least 2 years of foreign language, I took Mandarin 3 in 9th grade, so I’m not sure if this fulfill the requirement.
(p.s. I didn’t take language classes in middle school. )
You can take 2 years of another language during HS?
I’m a rising senior already so I don’t think there’s enough time to take another language for 2 years.
SAT Subject Test
Looks like an AP score will fulfill the requirement. (Since subject tests are gone)
The following scores satisfy the entire requirement:
SAT Subject Test
- Chinese With Listening: 520
- French/French With Listening: 540
- German/German With Listening: 510
- Modern Hebrew: 470
- Italian: 520
- Japanese With Listening: 510
- Korean With Listening: 500
- Latin: 530
- Spanish/Spanish With Listening: 520
AP or IB examination
Score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Exam in Chinese Language and Culture, French Language and Culture, German Language and Culture, Italian Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture, Spanish Language, Spanish Language and Culture, Spanish Literature and Culture or Latin; score of 5, 6 or 7 on an IB Language A2 HL exam.
If OP is a heritage or native speaker I’m not sure if Mandarin will count toward fulfilling a foreign language requirement. Maybe there’s some explanation I can’t think of, but this student took Mandarin 3 in 9th without any other language in Middle school I can’t think of any other explanation (other than an elementary school immersion program).
Is it your home language?
It may be an issue if the “foreign language” is not “foreign” to you.
The UC’s are competitive so if you took 1 year of Mandarin and another similar student took an additional year to reach level 4, then the admissions committees may take the student who invested more time in the foreign language.
Are you a California resident?
Yea, it’s my home language and I’m a California resident.
I asked my counselor, she said that I had fulfilled the requirement with the Mandarin 3 class but I keep hearing different stuffs from my friends whether it satisfy the requirement or not.
Maybe it meets your HS graduation requirement, but I don’t think one year of graded (level 3) Mandarin is going to make you competitive for the UC’s. If your HS counselor has seen other students get accepted, then you should ask where they went to school.
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For UCs and CSUs, LOTE (language other than English) high school level 3 validates level 1 and 2 and therefore fulfills that minimum frosh admission requirement (which is only level 2, but level 3 is recommended for UC).
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/csu-uc-a-g-comparison-matrix.pdf
University of California Counselors (page 20)
https://www2.calstate.edu/attend/student-services/Documents/Admissions-Handbook-2020-21.pdf (page 18)
How a UC (or other college) admission reader makes a subjective evaluation of your LOTE studies in the context of being a heritage speaker may be a different question entirely. (But it is better as a heritage speaker to have started in an appropriate higher level rather than grade-grubbing by starting in level 1.)
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thank you!!