<p>I’m a junior in high school
and i just wonder how many years of foreign language classes
does penn recommend.
I heard most of ivy schools recommend 2 years,but
i heard Brown recommends for 3 years now.
How about Penn?
I took only two years of Chinese, and i think
i kinda regret not taking chinese III this year.</p>
<p>I don't think there is any set requirement/recommendation, but I was pretty sure that 3 was standard for most colleges, and I also thought that most accepted students went above and beyond the limit</p>
<p>I hope 3 years of French is okay because that's where I stopped. It's not that I'm lazy or anything like that, as a matter of fact I love learning French and would also love to take it again in college but my 11th grade French teacher was just unbearable. This was the worst teacher I've ever had in my entire life. While in his class, I just never felt I was in control of my grades. If I should fail or pass a class, I would understand that I earned that grade but in this guy's class, that wasn't the matter. He took points off my work for the dumbest things. I knew he hated him(as childish as that may sound) because he kept criticizing me on always not greeting him(freak!!!):eek:. Before getting to his class, I never got less than an "A" in all my French classes. Upon arrival to his class, I literally "unlearned" all my French and started getting "Cs". I think being around him even lowered my IQ.</p>
<p>As evil as it may sound, if I was given the power to fire/hire, I would have fired him a long time ago!</p>
<p>4 Years is what I heard, and it is the norm for Ivys and colleges of the sort. I think 4 years could mean all 4 years of highschool, or just up to level 4 depending on how your school and district do things. You need 4 years in highschool for Wharton and Huntsman (Wharton stresses language and math). For engineering and non humanities majors, 3 years should be OK, but for an english or history major in Arts and Sciences, maybe 4 is better.</p>
<p>If I heard correctly from the admissions officer when I visited, they are more interested in how rigorous you made your schedule and less concerned with the number of actual years. They expect you to have taken the most advanced level of language offered at your school (unless you took introductions to multiple languages). Its in your best interest to challenge yourself with that Honors or AP class. Obviously people can get into selective schools like Penn without this, but it most definitely helps.</p>