<p>Do I have to take French in college to be able to apply? Or will high school French be sufficient?</p>
<p>I know that during the fall/spring, it's a Columbia-Penn program, but is that also the case during the summer?</p>
<p>And to anyone who has done this program, did you find it worthwhile and worth the $$?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>It’ll depend on your level of French. You need the equivalent of 4 semesters of college French to be accepted, but if you take the CU language placement test, you can get out of taking the language classes. There are, however, other requirements. You need to take a class on contemporary French culture (literature, politics, etc) before you go, and they prefer it to be conducted in French, and you need a recommendation from a language professor–I don’t know if you can ask a high school teacher to do this for you.</p>
<p>I did the program a few years ago, so these requirements may have changed since then, but I think that’s what I had to do. I did it during the school year, so I can’t speak to the summer program, but I have to say it was great. The staff there really makes the transition go a lot smoother than if you were to just directly enroll for a semester–be wary, however, of the homestays. There are a lot of benefits to a homestay, but on the whole, they were pretty hit or miss, mostly miss.</p>