<p>Hello College Confidential. I'm currently taking Korean 1 at my community college. I found out that this course doesn't really fulfill any requirements for me. I am aiming for a 4.0 in college to transfer, so getting this easy A in Korean 1 wouldn't be much of a help. </p>
<p>My counselor said that taking this course is bad, because the admissions people will look at my last name and know that I'm Korean. But there are Korean people that aren't able to speak Korean... Anyways, should I drop the course, am I wasting my time, or is there any benefits whatsoever of taking it? Thanks.</p>
<p>do you speak korean at home? if so, taking it at college just to get an A may be cheesy, but i don’t think admissions would think twice about it</p>
<p>If you are in the ccc system and aiming for UC’s, CSU’s… I’d suggest posting this on the UC Transfer subforum. As the posters there are knowledgeable about the specific curricula and strategies which work/don’t work for those systems.</p>
<p>If you’re elsewhere, this would be my response:</p>
<p>The strength/rigor of your course schedule is an important factor for transfer admission to the more selective schools. If you are a native Korean speaker, I think it might be a weak element in your courseload. If you are not a native speaker, maybe not; and you could mention in an essay that you wanted to learn the language of your heritage… having not been exposed to it in your home. Won’t work if that’s not true, of course.</p>
<p>But I would assume your advisor made that comment for a reason. </p>
<p>A 4.0 GPA with a weak schedule, with obvious “easy A’s” won’t have the credibility of, say, a 3.5 in a rigorous schedule.</p>
<p>If you plan on applying to schools with really high transfer acceptance rates (60%+), you probably don’t need to worry about it.</p>