<p>Unlike most students at my high school, I decided to take Mandarin Chinese as my language instead of Spanish, French, or Italian. I'm one of the only Caucasians in the Chinese program at my high school, and have did good, but not great (I had a cumulative of a B+ in Freshman and sophomore year) in Chinese. I moved up to Chinese Honors this year, and if I do reasonably well (let's say anywhere from b to a-), does this look better than taking any other languagefor three years with similar grades</p>
<p>I don’t think colleges care much one way or the other about which language you take-- unless that is, you make them care by writing an essay about the experience or why you chose it.</p>
<p>I don’t think it has that much of a edge. With Mandarin becoming more and more available at schools across the U.S. it’s not that rare of a thing to see students taking the class. Plus a lot of the time people just take the class for kicks. One of my friends took it last year and she said the majority of the students in the class were rowdy football players. She referred to the class as a “ratchet” class. Plus a lot of kids in my school just take the class because they flunked out of their regular language and decided to be “spontaneous and original”
But that doesn’t really say much for the difficulty of the class. Granted, Mandarin could be harder than a lot of people expect but because it’s becoming seen more and more as just a popular language class, colleges probably don’t hold any more weight on it than other languages.</p>
<p>But the fact that you get good grades in the class should be good enough because it won’t look like you’re taking the class for granted.</p>
<p>Okay thanks for the help</p>
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<p>Possibly… but some schools are cutting back on foreign languages other than Spanish and maybe French due to budget cuts.</p>