<p>I only have spanish 1 as a foreign language credit that i got back in Middle School. I plan to earn a second foreign language credit (sequential) at a community college. Will that second one count as my 2nd sequential language credit? I live out of state.</p>
<p>Also, just to make sure, what is the policy for foreign language requirements?</p>
<p>According to the [common</a> data set](<a href=“Home - MIT Institutional Research”>Home - MIT Institutional Research), two units of foreign language are recommended.</p>
<p>There’s no problem with earning one of the credits at a community college.</p>
<p>does it matter if i live out of state (florida) ? </p>
<p>Ive been dreaming to have a chance to get in, but i hope nothing small like this gets in the way lol…anywho, i will take the 3rd level of the language in 12th grade to stay on the safe side.</p>
<p>Anyone else with input?</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean – MIT isn’t a state school, and doesn’t consider state residency as a factor in admissions. It won’t be more or less difficult for you to get in because you are from Florida.</p>
<p>I mean, the credits from the community college local to me, will those credits work up there in massachusetts (that might be a dumb question sry)</p>
<p>They’ll definitely accept them as work you did in high school. If you want college credit for the class, the process is a little more difficult (not because of where the college is, but because MIT gives relatively little credit for classes not taken at MIT).</p>
<p>Yeah, it is highly unlikely that they’ll give you MIT foreign language credits for those classes. At most, they might give you “general elective” (aka “empty”) credits. However, you can use the skills that you learned in them to place into a higher-level MIT class, if you want to continue your language in college.</p>
<p>4 years ago when I tried to get credit for a foreign language class I took through a local college, they told me no, flat out. As in, we do not accept any credits you earned while you were enrolled in high school, even if it was a college class. I thought this was sort of stupid (still do, in fact, as they wouldn’t even <em>look</em> at the pages of supporting material they made me accumulate before informing me of this, class syllabus, or even the name of the school it was from), but that’s how it went.</p>
<p>LauraN, that means credits in the University right?
You could still use those credits to just get into MIT right</p>
<p>@gatorsh93, You have two options in terms of formally demonstrating that you’ve completed two years of a foreign language.</p>
<p>First option: Some high schools have formal arrangements with local community colleges whereby a high-school student can take a cc class and have the class transferred in to the high school transcript, where it will count toward the fulfillment of high school requirements. If this is true of your high school, see your guidance department for the necessary forms/paperwork and procedures.</p>
<p>Second option: If no such arrangement exists, you can formally request your community-college transcript be sent directly to MIT. If you end up doing this, there’s a place on the MIT application where you can add additional information to explain things to the admissions committee; you can add a note saying something like: “I completed my second year of foreign language requirement by taking Spanish 2 at Community College X. I have made arrangements for the Community College transcript to be sent to MIT in order to demonstrate the fulfillment of this requirement.”</p>
<p>thanks man. i am tryinig option 1, just hoping there are no obstacles.</p>
<p>gatorsh: Well, I assume that MIT Admissions knew about my courses since they were incorporated in my transcript and high school profile. I have no idea how important they were in the decision process, but the Admissions Office knew about it.</p>
<p>I’m talking about well after I was admitted- when I got to campus and tried to convince them to give me some credits for the courses I had already taken, they weren’t having any of it.</p>
<p>Hmm my school requires us to have 3 FL credits or otherwise, we cant graduate. I guess they know that most colleges also require/recommend the same thing.</p>