<p>I’m trying to help my hairdresser’s son, who is a junior at a high school with almost five thousand students (and terrible advising).
It turns out that he has not taken any foreign language classes in high school, because he told the counselors when he was a freshman that he planned on going to a community college.
Now he is a good football player with great grades and interested in a four year school. Does anyone have experience with getting that part of the a-g requirements waived?</p>
<p>Is he fluent in any languages?
If he is, take the SAT II and get high score on it. it will waive his a-g requirements for a language. that’s what i did, but i still took 2 years of spanish: one during freshman year and one during junior year (for a higher gpa?) and i took the SAT French test and got 800 so i was waived.
you should talk to a counselor or a UC representatative though for more information.</p>
<p>Hope this helped.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they only speak English at home.
It looks like for both UCs and CSUs the second language requirement is unavoidable.
It’s frustrating because most other public universities don’t require two years. I wish the language requirement was in the elective category. I wonder how many kids are not UC eligible because of this every year.</p>
<p>If he is a GREAT fb player that is recruited, he can be admitted by exception, which essentially waives some/many strict admission requirements. Alternatively, if Junior, take FL at a local college over the summer.</p>
<p>He can also become eligible for UC by examination alone. I think it requires an average of ~690 (instate) on all five tests…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/exam_eligibility.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/exam_eligibility.html</a></p>
<p>There are a few different ways to satisfy the requirement as outlined below:</p>
<p>UC-Approved High School Courses</p>
<p>Two years (three years recommended) of the same language other than English. Courses should emphasize speaking and understanding, and include instruction in grammar, vocabulary, reading, composition and culture. American Sign Language and classical languages, such as Latin and Greek, are acceptable.</p>
<p>SAT Subject Examination</p>
<p>The following scores satisfy the entire requirement:</p>
<pre><code>* Chinese With Listening: 520
- French/French With Listening: 540
- German/German With Listening: 510
- Modern Hebrew: 470
- Italian: 520
- Japanese With Listening: 510
- Korean With Listeninig: 500
- Latin: 530
- Spanish/Spanish With Listening: 520
</code></pre>
<p>AP or IB Examination</p>
<p>Score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP Language or Literature Exam in French, German, Spanish or Latin (Chinese, Italian and Japanese are pending faculty approval);
Score of 5, 6 or 7 on an IB Language A2 HL exam</p>
<p>College Courses</p>
<p>Grade of C or better in any transferable course(s) (excluding conversation) held by the college to be equivalent to two years of high school language. Many colleges list the prerequisites for their second course in language as “Language 1 at this college or two years of high school language.” In this case, Language 1 clears both years of the requirement.</p>
<p>Source: [University</a> of California - Counselors](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/adminfo/freshman/advising/admission/subjectr.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/adminfo/freshman/advising/admission/subjectr.html)</p>
<p>Unfortunately there is no way around actually learning a new language.</p>
<p>cheat on the sat ii???</p>