<p>hi guys</p>
<p>on the huntsman website it said--we discourage applicants to apply for their own language....</p>
<p>but i still want to apply for chinese, even though it is my first lang.
so how disadvantaged is that? i think many ppl apply for their first lang?</p>
<p>bumpbumpbump</p>
<p>if they say they discourage applications applying for their own language... chances are they will frown upon that. just a thought</p>
<p>ya but tons of chinese and hispanic and tamils still got in ...</p>
<p>how much does it really hurt ur chance?</p>
<p>yeah, but (disclaimer: i'm just speculating) those people may have known other languages besides their "native languages." Or they may have learned the languages in school, and are not native speakers.</p>
<p>however, you probably need somebody who knows more about the huntsman program. call the office tomorrow for a definitive answer.</p>
<p>im taking SAT II french and i take french in hs
does dat help?</p>
<p>Obviously it makes your chances 25.6% worse</p>
<p>If you already know chinese what benefit will the program be to you? There's not point. "I'm a chinese person studying international studies...of china."</p>
<p>And if you take french, do french. It'll look a lot better.</p>
<p>Talked to the executive director of the program and from what I heard i believe that it is not a deal killer to apply for your own language, but if there is a non-native speaker who has a decent level of fluency they will most likely have you beat in that area. I think once you get past a certain level of proficiency in a language they only care about what you have done with that language and what you can do in the future.</p>
<p>bumping your own post 20 minutes later is teh lame.</p>
<p>if you're not really passionate about one of those languages and the related relations, then why are you applying to huntsman?</p>
<p>FOR THE MONEY DUH</p>
<p>Man that statistically insignificant increase in salary is WORTH IT</p>
<p>your mother's tongue was actually pretty solid when i caught it in huntsman</p>
<p>ZING!</p>
<p>I have a lot of huntsman friends, here's my experience with seeing them, hope it gives you some idea:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>someone who grew up bilingual in German and English does French</p></li>
<li><p>someone who grew up in Mandarin, started English fairly young, is doing French. Another is doing Korean.</p></li>
<li><p>someone spent first few years of his life in Russia, moved to USA, and never became a fluent native speaker of Russian, and is doing Russian.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>And of course there's all the dumb americans who started a language in highschool but got proficient quickly.</p>
<p>Choco I think I know each of who you're referencing. Unless the huntsmanites are just terribly generic!</p>
<p>@ Jco: Those are both true statements</p>
<p>well
i like the international studies aspect of huntsman and i believe theres a lot more than language for international studies</p>
<p>just b/c someone can speak chinese, doesn't mean he understands anything abt the society</p>
<p>International studies = a massive joke. Seriously, they contrived a major and put a stamp of approval on it to make it a joint-degree program. They got lots and lots of money to do so. I guarantee if you know chinese the program will be a waste of your time.</p>
<p>coming from the all time multilingualist</p>
<p>Woman bull testicle</p>
<p>women bull testicle > coveney</p>
<p>JCoveney I bet you do them. They're nice people.</p>