How important is a 3rd year of foreign language?

Applying to College
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<p>I've taken Italian 1 and 2 and really don't want to take a 3rd year unless it can give me an edge for getting into some better colleges.</p>

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<p>Very, very important. The selective schools want to see 4 years of a language. It's definitely not "required" at many of those schools, but the connotation is obvious.</p>

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<p>I beleive Syracuse requires three. I'm not sure on any else. Actually I'm not sure about Syracuse. I might have misread.</p>

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<p>I'm fairly certain tubachick means a 3rd year as in three whole years of a foreign language... unless she goes to a school where a yearlong language course is condensed into a semester, which I have never heard of.</p>

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<p>Do you go to a public school in the US? I'm guessing the school you go to does things differently than the typical US public school, where a yearlong class is just that; a class that is a year long, not two classes a semester long each. At my school, only art and PE courses are a semester long.</p>

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<p>I meant three years. Sorry about that.</p>

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<p>If you look at some college requirements/suggestions, many want to see you take 3+ years of a single foreign language. My friend was rejected from some colleges that would have been a shoe-in for her because she opted out of taking more than the required 2 years of language in my high school (she actually asked an admissions counselor why she was rejected).</p>

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<p>Oh wow. Looks like its three years of Latin, or maybe four, like my original plan. Gosh darn it. Such a hard class, although I do love the language.</p>

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<p>very important, but it really depends on where ur applying.</p>