<p>My school next year will allow me to take only two years of a foreign language, and that is what I want to do, because it will free up my schedule and I am basically a failure at foreign languages in general. </p>
<p>Do you think that this will hurt chances at colleges? I know that some of them want you to have three years, but is that a steadfast requirement?</p>
<p>If your school only has two years of foreign language, or if that is all you really can take because of your schedule, don't sweat it. Every year fine colleges and universities in the USA admit students who have never taken ANY foreign languages at all. If you carefully read the wording on the college/university websites, you will find that it almost always says "recommended". This gives them leeway in the admission process.</p>
<p>Thanks happymom :)
Just to clarify, I didn't mean that they only have up to a second level course, I mean that the school allows you to only take two years of a language.</p>
<p>I got into good schools and so did many of my friends of all nationalities with only two years of language. ( schedule conflicts) Our school allows you to go up to 4.</p>
<p>You still didn't say it clearly, what you meant was that your school only requires two years of foreign language.</p>
<p>Anyway I got into Cornell, and my friend got into Cornell, CMU, and Brown with only 2 years of foreign language. However I'm an electrical engineering major and he's a cs major and we both dropped language to take computer science courses. </p>
<p>It will hurt you more if you're doing something non math or science. However as long as you aren't going into linguistics if you drop it and take something else thats relevant you should be fine. If you drop it and take a study though, that would be a bigger problem.</p>
<p>Well, if the school only allows you to take two years of a language, than that is the best you can do there. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>I got into Georgetown SFS after taking 3 years of a foreign language... I didn't take a language senior year, and I took a language in 7th grade for high school credit.</p>