<p>I realize that at each of the Ivy League universities, 3 years of language is "recommended" (at Harvard and Penn : 4 languages)...</p>
<p>But what exactly does "recommended" mean to them? </p>
<p>And would one be penalized (if applying to Penn or Harvard, where 4 languages are required) if they took 3 years of one language, and one year of another? Do the 4 years have to be in the same language?</p>
<p>Would someone who has applied themselves/heard about the Ivy League language requirements please answer?</p>
<p>In most cases, a language requirement involves whatever number of years in one language, not multiples. They don't want people taking the first year courses of three or four different languages. It an application says recommended with anything, consider it a requirement. That makes life easier.</p>
<p>yea I talked personally with a UPenn admissions officer recently, and she specifically stated that you should be fluent in another language other than English. If you took 3 years of a language, but proved your fluency for instance, by a high SAT2 lang test score, than I think it would is okay. But yea, don`t take 1 year or a language and then learn a different language.</p>