<p>Okay, so, I'm registering for my college classes...
Does med schools prefer Spanish or anything like that?
I really want to take a language like russian..so i'm just wondering if I have to take Spanish later on to look good in med school application. </p>
<p>thnx.</p>
<p>I’ve seen some schools that require a foreign language and some that prefer a foreign language. Of those that preferred foreign languages, Spanish was at the top. Could you take classes in both? Which will be most useful in the future?</p>
<p>med schools only care that you are proficient in english</p>
<p>take russian (or whatever other language you are interested in)</p>
<p>A number of schools encourage or strongly recommend knowledge of or coursework in Spanish.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/forms/additional_reqs.pdf[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/forms/additional_reqs.pdf</a></p>
<p>My son is fluent in French but is taking an elective Spanish for Physicians class offered through his med school. I’d guess that many med schools have some sort of arrangement to do this as well.</p>
<p>UCLA is the only school I know of that makes Spanish “strongly recommended” (read: borderline mandatory). But many others will prefer it over anything else.</p>
<p>Oh, and by that you mean taking at least two semesters of spanish right?</p>
<p>Whatever it takes to achieve conversational proficiency, is how I interpret it.</p>
<p>…and I am afraid that two semesters of a language won’t allow you to do that.</p>
<p>Yeah, two semesters. Nobody really cares about profiiciency unless you are applying to the PR schools. Take Russian if you want, I have never seen a school reject an application based on which language you take. It might be strongly recomended at schools in high latino populations like UCLA and FIU. I know people that have taken Haitian Creole and Japanese as their languages.</p>