<p>I'm not worried about how many I'm taking, ha, what I'm wondering is whether it really is an indicator of success if you do well in foreign languages. I heard that somewhere. Apparently if you do well in foreign languages, you are expected to do well in college...statistically. Has anybody else heard this?</p>
<p>No I Haven't.</p>
<p>that's news to me</p>
<p>what happens when you're a native speaker? last time i checked the mexican kids in inner city schools weren't doing so hot. (broad generalization)</p>
<p>I haven't heard of it either.</p>
<p>I think it might be more than you do better on the SATs, due to them being romanticized languages.</p>
<p>@Senior: I think they mean a foreign language as in, foreign to you, not foreign to Americans.</p>
<p>There is is supposed to be some evidence that students who are truly multi-lingual (and this would include being literate in all of their languages that have writing systems) do better on the SAT verbal. Sorry I don't have a specific reference for you, I've just heard that from people who run language immersion programs in our school district.</p>
<p>Remember kids, correlation does not imply causation.</p>
<p>I'm saying this as a wannabe polyglot and as a person who encourages people to take many foreign languages and to complete language tracks as soon as possible (so you can dual-enroll in that language while still in high school). It's not that taking foreign languages is the main cause of succeeding better (though it might give you the mental discipline), but it seems more like a correlating factor with a third root cause.</p>
<p>Just because a lot of rich people play golf, it doesn't mean that playing golf will give you a better chance of being rich. :)</p>
<p>The other thing is that you need a control groups for intelligence, wealth, etc. ... where are the details of the study? I can't find it on Google Scholar.</p>
<p>SeniorSlacker, somone who was born speaking a language is not the same as someone who went to school and work hard to learn a language. When they talk about bilingual in that sens, it is about people who have the capability to learn a (completely) foreign language.</p>