<p>I just decided to apply to the US a year ago so I hadn't taken any foreign languages after Grade 10 French! But it turns out that US schools have course requirements over all of your high school credits? I'm gonna be applying to Penn, MIT, and Cornell, and someone told me that they require three years of foreign language or something. Should I just not even bother applying because I don't have the courses to fulfill the requirements? Would it help that I took the Chinese SAT last week (which I should have done pretty well on)??</p>
<p>Really? Oh thank God then! I can’t find any of the related information on the universities’ websites, so I freaked out after I had read a couple of online college admission guides that spoke of these requirements like this one - [Foreign</a> Language Requirement - Learn About Foreign Language Requirements for College Admissions](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/theartofgettingaccepted/a/ForeignLanguage.htm]Foreign”>Foreign Language Requirements for College Admissions) which says for example that Harvard requires four years of foreign language in high school. Can anybody confirm that this information is inaccurate?</p>
<p>They recommend. You don’t HAVE to take that many years of a foreign language. It will definitely not make or break your admission to these schools. They have bigger things to worry about like SAT I, SAT IIs, essays, transcripts, recs, ECs, etc.</p>