<p>I speak Japanese, Nepali, English, understand some hindi and I am currently learning Spanish.</p>
<p>would that play a big role in my application?
should I take a AP test in Japanese and score a 5 or take SAT II in Japanese and score high?</p>
<p>You can get out of the language requirement with a score of 600+ on the SAT2 or a 5 on the AP. That's always seemed weird to me as surely getting a five on the AP is harder. I don't think you can get credit for anything but the AP though. You'd have to look it up - I know it's on the website. A high score on the SAT2 would be helpful when applying, and unlike APs a certain number of SAT2s are required. Hard to say if that particular set of languages is a plus. It would depend I think on how you presented it. Just knowing them not so much.</p>
<p>speaking variety of languages is always a plus, but what kind of a role it will play in the admissions - i have no idea, since a lot of people who can speak a lot of languages still get rejected. I, myself, can speak four different languages, and it's not rare to see many trilingual people nowadays.</p>
<p>I am in a similar situation (English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi and Malayalam)I'm hoping to use this as a hook. I've heard that Harvard admits certain people in order to fill some of their classes. If this is true, what language courses would qualify for this preference? Secondly, have any Harvard admittees used linguistic abilities as a hook?</p>
<p>Also, something I'm a bit worried about is that the adcom will believe that I am lying since I learned three of these languages on my own using just books from the library and a LOT of time during the summer. Is this possible? Thanks.</p>
<p>hey, I hope its a plus.
I've heard that Harvard likes to get students from country like India who are very talented (like those from IIT). I'm sure that they are waaaay talented than me (but actually even "average" students get in to Harvard if they are International students...ie China, India,etc). ....although that doesn't do any good to me cuz I'm not international student...but H must be interested in "international" type of thing?? </p>
<p>cooljoe: I don't know how you spend so much time learning some of those languages...but I don't know if the admissions would think that you are lying. I mean, if you are worried, you could do somehing to prove that you know those languages...maybe like AP test (but hindi malayan, etc aren't there). Well, I hope they believe you...</p>
<p>My government teacher once talked with the former president of Harvard. He said one girl wowed her interviewer by speaking in mandarin Chinese at her interview. I would definitely find a way to bring your impressive language accomplishments into view. Have you talked to your guidance counselor?</p>
<p>I haven't really spoken to my counselor about this, but she does know that I'm taking both AP Spanish and AP French in school, which I think anyone has is a first for my school. Did that interviewer know Mandarin Chinese? If not, I might as well try speaking Malayalam (my native tongue) since hardly anyone knows it.</p>
<p>Hey so we can wow the interviewer?? I haven't talked to my counsler or anyone about it....I speak Japanese but I'm not actually from Japan...i can speak it fluently only cuz i lived there for a long time....should i include the part that i lived there, or should I just put that i can speak japanese fluently</p>