<p>How badly will only 2 years of a foreign language hurt my chances at Brown? I got bad advice from my guidence counselor and had a bad teacher. If it helps, the language was Russian.</p>
<p>I couldn't give you a percentage of how much it will hurt you, but one thing every college I ever looked at, Brown included, had in common was the more foreign language the better, with a preferred 4 years.</p>
<p>please...you're worried about that? Apply and see what happens.</p>
<p>It won't hurt your chances because Russian is very rare to take in school. If you dropped Spanish after 2 years that would be bad or say Latin after 2 years, that would be bad. I've been taking Latin for 7 years haha and it still gives me trouble.</p>
<p>I didn't even take language in high school :P
though, to be fair, I did take a foreign language course at a university one summer...so maybe they counted that...</p>
<p>They reccomend 3 years at least. 4 makes you a stronger applicant. </p>
<p>It won't break your application, but having just 2 years certainly won't help you. </p>
<p>I don' think it matters that it was russian. A lot of people are limited by what their underfunded school districts provide, so giving someone extra cred for taking a more rare language wouldn't exactly be fair. My school only offered french and spanish, and german for the first 2 years I was there.</p>