<p>I read somewhere that it's recommended that students applying to Columbia should have at least 4 units of a foreign language completed in high school. This may be a really stupid question, but at my school, we have the option of taking a class Pass/Fail (Pass being anything above a D) as long as it's not an honors/AP class. I've taken 2 years of regular Spanish with the standard letter grading, but I am considering taking the last 2 units as Pass/Fail because it doesn't get factored into your GPA. (which would actually be helpful in my case, because Spanish is the only reason why I currently can't get a 5.0)</p>
<p>I live in Illinois and most of the colleges here have a 2 year foreign language requirement that needs to be completed in high school. My counselor told me that the 2 year foreign language requirement can't be taken as Pass/Fail because the colleges won't consider it as having completed the requirement.</p>
<p>Anyways, I was wondering if this was the case for Columbia as well. I know that it's just a recommendation to take 4 years of a foreign language, but I'm wondering if taking the remainder of my foreign language classes as Pass/Fail will affect my transcript in a negative way.</p>
<p>So yeah, basically if I take Spanish as Pass/Fail, my GPA and rank would go up (which can't hurt), but I'm wondering if the absence of a letter grade for the class will be frowned upon.</p>