<p>After reviewing my transcript and some college requirements, I noticed that most colleges require two years of the SAME foreign language. I have a year of spanish and ONE semster of Arabic at a community college. This in no way satisfies the requirements. I didn't know and I understand it is a big mistake that will cost me dearly. I made two solutions A) (Im taking 5 of 5 ap classes for my seniro year, all 5 hours are ap) I will have to duel enroll along with a full schedule and take another semester of Arabic and hope they let the two years of the SAME foreign language requirement pass as they are two different languages . B) Take out ap gov, which hasn't started, and take spanish two. but that will also be a problem because I haven't taken government which is required to take. Please help me out. If I test out of Gov, do i get the credit for it? Any input will be helpful!!!</p>
<p>Two year of 1 foreign language is the basic requirement for most colleges. Your counselor should have told you 2-3 years ago. If you take anothet semester in community college a higher level of the same language, that may be sufficient for the 2 year requirement if the 1 semester course in college equals 1 year in HS. Nevertheless, most top schools actually recoomend 3-4 years of the same language.</p>
<p>Hopefully that is what it is. It wasn’t stressed enough.</p>
<p>You must meet your own school district’s graduation requirements, or you won’t graduate. Make certain to fulfill those.</p>
<p>Provided you are on track to graduate from high school, most colleges/universities in the country will admit you, so take a good long look at all the options out there not just the places discussed most here at CC.</p>
<p>College foreign language courses tend to go at a faster pace than high school foreign language courses; a year of college foreign language may be equivalent to two or three years of high school foreign language, depending on the college and high school. However, you may then have to figure out how to explain that to selective schools you apply to, if they do not have a clearly stated policy on the subject.</p>
<p>Hopefully the schools you are applying to will take the two semesters at the community college and count it as two years since it is at a higher level. Also hopefully you are looking at schools that don’t recommend three to four years. </p>
<p>Don’t drop gov if it is required to graduate because if you don’t graduate you won’t get into college.</p>
<p>Some/most of this depends on your potential major, rigor, and achievements. Ie, how compelling an applicant you are, regardless of the FL snafu. The more competitive the college, the more other applicants will have met requirements and more. Ime, one semester at cc is one semester, not one year- and usually rudimentary. First, you realistically assess yourself for the colleges on your list. Did you stretch, take the most challenging classes, prioritize those over the language requirement? Or take a more ordinary path? What major are you thinking of?</p>
<p>Im majoring in biophysics. I contacted the U of M admissions office and they said I have two years of foreign language (one year of Spanish and one semester at cc of Arabic 131, tested out of beginning class). They mentioned they strongly recommend I take another semester of Arabic thus counting as 2 years of Arabic and 1 year of Spanish</p>
<p>Completion of second semester of college foreign language usually indicates a higher level of proficiency than completion of second year of high school foreign language.</p>
<p>But taking the third semester of college Arabic should be a good thing in any case if you want to improve both your college admission chances and your Arabic language skills.</p>
<p>Thanks. That was what I was thinking as well.</p>