Late Foreign Language Credit.

Transfer Students
1

Hello, I am a two year College Student who will be applying to schools for fall 2018. I am a business major with a high GPA and will be applying to selective and highly selective schools. After talking to some of my prospective schools I had to make a few changes in my upcoming schedule which included adding a financial accounting course on top of an already rigorous schedule for my fall 2017 semester… My gut feeling is to drop Spanish 1 for this semester in take it for next. HOWEVER, If I do that I will have to do Spanish 2 over the summer.

*** My essential question is; Will not having my foreign language requirements met until literally right before I would be starting at the next school hurt my chances at acceptance? Is there a way to communicate that I will meet the language requirements, just not until the end of summer? ***

My only other options are to drop my Honors Biology class, which may prevent me from graduating with honors, or to take 17 credits of what are mostly rigorous 200 level courses, and risk hurting my GPA.

2

What do you need foreign language for? Your AA/AS degree at your CC? Then finishing it in the summer and graduating in late summer is perfectly fine.

3

More importantly for acceptance to most of the schools I’m applying to. But yes, also for the AA degree, which only really matters to the in-state schools I’m applying to.

4

Finishing in summer is fine for your transfer applications. If any of them do require that you have finished a year of FL before enrolling, letting them know about the scheduling is good enough.