<p>I moved to the US from Japan sophomore year in high school, and graduated. I am at a Community College now hoping to transfer next year. During high school, I took the AP exam for Japanese and passed. In order to transfer to a UC (I'm mainly concerned about UCLA, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara), does the AP Japanese Exam satisfy the foreign language requirement? Or do I have to take another foreign language besides Japanese and English? Or is English considered my foreign language? </p>
<p>I am hoping to apply to transfer next fall, and I'm a little worried that I need to work on satisfying the foreign language requirement from now.</p>
<p>Yes, your AP Japanese Exam does satisfy the foreign language requirement. Don’t worry. I was told by my counselor that I have to send my Spanish Exam papers to my community college, but I didn’t bother and took a foreign language class anyways just to get more credits. :)</p>
<p>If you are still worried and have more questions, try to talk to a counselor at your community college. And if you still want to take a foreign language requirement class, you can still take Japanese, they won’t consider it as cheating.</p>
<p>Are you doing IGETC? If you are, remember that the UC doesnt verify your foreign language, your community college does. So you would take your ap scores to your counselor when you finish the rest of the requirements so they can certify you. They then send that certification to the UC you have SIR’d to.</p>
<p>I see, I forgot that the community college verifies it. Thank you so much 
I was worried they might not consider it a “foreign” language since I came from that country. </p>
<p>And yes, I needed it to satisfy the IGETC, but I am transferring as an English major. I remember my counselor telling me that the UC’s require the equivalence of the 4th college course level of a foreign language. Do you know if the AP Japanese exam satisfies that too? or do you know where I can look it up?</p>
<p>Foreign language requirements at UCs do vary by campus and division, so you need to look up each UC campus to make sure.</p>
<p>Berkeley L&S: [Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Foreign Language](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/fl.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/fl.html)
UCLA L&S: [UCLA</a> General Catalog 2012-13: College of Letters and Science: College Requirements](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-41d.htm]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-41d.htm)
UCSB L&S: [UC</a> Santa Barbara General Catalog - General Subject Area Requirements](<a href=“http://my.sa.ucsb.edu/Catalog/Current/UndergraduateEducation/GeneralSubjectAreaRequirements.aspx]UC”>UC Santa Barbara General Catalog - General Subject Area Requirements)</p>
<p>Note that Berkeley is on the semester system (2 terms per academic year), while UCLA and UCSB are on the quarter system (3 terms per academic year), so keep that in mind when reading about the level of language course that the requirements specify.</p>
<p>Note also that the three campuses above all have provision for satisfying the requirement through placement testing, if available in the Japanese department at the campus. They also all accept a 3 or higher on the AP Japanese exam.</p>