<p>Is it basically a requirement to take a foreign language your senior year in high school to get into public ivies (UNC, Michigan, UVA, UC schools)? Do you know anyone who didn't and still got in to those?</p>
<p>Start with the college websites. For instance UNC-CH states:</p>
<p><a href=“What are the minimum course requirements for admission? What if I don't meet them? - Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.unc.edu/minimum-course-requirements/</a></p>
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<p>It states nothing about taking a FL during sr year, only that you need two years of a single FL.</p>
<p>Carry on with the rest of the schools.</p>
<p>No, it isn’t. Sounds like the propagation of false information by clueless high school students.</p>
<p>No. You don’t need to take a foreign language class in senior year. You only need to fulfill their foreign language requirement by HS graduation.</p>
<p>Although it would probably look good to take it senior year, it probably isn’t necessary as long as you have the requirements fulfilled.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who posted!!</p>
<p>To achieve your maximum competitive potential, all highly selective schools, even those that only require two years of foreign language, like to see students achieve Level IV in a single language. If you can achieve this before your senior year, great, but it’s really not the number of years you go, it’s the level you achieve.</p>
<p>^Exactly: not the number of years but level achieved.
Competitive universities only require 2 years because that’s what low-performing high schools offer (and they don’t want to bar high achieving applicants from low performing schools since it’s not their fault their school doesn’t offer more). If your high school offers more than Level 2, you need to achieve Level 3 or Level 4 (some applicants will have reached AP level) in order to be competitive for admission. However, it does NOT mean you need to take the class senior year. It only means that if you’ve reached proficiency up to level 3 or 4, as demonstrated by a high SAT Subject score, an AP score, or a transcript that states “Latin III” even if it’s sophomore year, you’re fine.</p>
<p>I’ve taken up to Spanish 5. We have no ap Spanish and it goes up to 6. They offer IB Spanish but you have to take 6 to do that. Some schools recommend taking the 5 core classes each year though so that’s why I’m worried. Even though I took 5 years, it’s not all years of high school. @MYOS1634</p>
<p>Again, it’s not when you took them, it’s the level you achieve. Obviously if you achieve Level V by junior year, you took some of the early levels in middle school. That’s perfectly acceptable.</p>
<p>Taking 5 cores senior year is a must for highly competitive colleges. If doesn’t have to be five different cores, you can double up in one ot two areas, and you can even take a few AP-lite courses or non-AP courses to get there. And if you’ve achieved Level IV in a language, you don’t need to include a foreign language either.</p>
<p>My senior year I take 2 Ap sciences, Ap english, Ap history, and Ap gov! Then I took Yearbook 4 where I’m editor-in-chief and I had to go through a lot of interviews and elections to get. I don’t want colleges to think I choose yearbook over foreign language so that’s why I doubled up in sciences!
@MrMom62</p>
<p>The schedule is fine. Enjoy.</p>
<p>Thanks @skieurope 
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<p>What do you all mean by “5 cores”? I’m a little confused. Like, what would be an example?</p>
<p>Cores are usually considered science, social studies, math, english, and foreign language. Many selective colleges want 5 academic classes each year of high school whether it’s one of each of them or maybe doubling up in one. @peytonmg</p>
<p>Your schedule is fine if you reached level IV (or V) in a foreign language and doubled up on a science. Yearbook is good, it’ll allow you to discuss why you picked it during your interview.</p>
<p>Most of my schools don’t have interviews @MYOS1634
I feel like it’s usually self explanatory though</p>
<p>I’m in the IB program at my school, but I will have tested out of science and Spanish by my senior year. Would colleges look down upon other continuing IB coursework like Psych, English, and Math? I’ll still have 4 credits of both science and spanish.</p>
<p>I would defiantly continue a science and it’s up to you with languages, but it wouldn’t hurt. </p>