What classes to be taking?

[Unibames]

<p>I'm currently a Liberal Arts student in my second semester at my CC. I have a big interest in foreign languages and already took French 1 and rather than go straight to French 2 I enrolled in Spanish 1, (Besides, French 2 isn't offered this semester due to low enrollment.) I'm looking to transfer to a top tier school later on (Preferably Ivy League), do you think they'd rather me be focusing on one language or does it not make much difference? I am wanting to go for an Economics/Finance degree but am keeping my Liberal Arts major because of how flexible the curriculum is. This semester I'm taking Accounting 1, Microeconomics, Oral Communications, and Spanish 1.</p>

[Unibames]

<p><em>Bump</em> Anyone?</p>

[entomom]

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do you think they’d rather me be focusing on one language or does it not make much difference?

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<p>IMO you should focus on trying to gain fluency in one language rather than gathering a smattering of several languages. If you look at college websites, you will find that selective colleges generally want from 3-4 yrs of HS FL in a single language. For instance, read what H says:</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Preparing for College](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/preparing/index.html#language]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/preparing/index.html#language)</p>

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Foreign Language</p>

<p>You should leave secondary school knowing at least one foreign language well enough to read it easily and pronounce it acceptably. Knowing a foreign language enables you to enter another culture and to understand its ideas and its values. A fundamental aspect of language-learning must be a grasp of vocabulary and syntax that allows you to read novels, plays, poems, and magazines, with as much of a native speaker’s comprehension as possible. We have found that students who have mastered a foreign language before they come to Harvard take more language courses here than those who have not. Indeed, these students often embark on the study of languages not commonly taught in American secondary schools.</p>

<p>Many secondary school students take a smattering of several languages – for example, Latin for two years, French for a year, and Spanish for a year. When it is too late, they realize that they cannot read or speak any of these languages well. We urge you to try to study at least one foreign language and its literature for four years. Continuity of study is important, too, because a “year off” from a language can be a real setback. Once you are comfortably fluent, you will possess that language – and better appreciate the culture it has shaped – for the rest of your life.

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