Is four years of a foreign language still recommended for college admission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about UMD? Does UMD count the high school credits earned in middle school?

Yes. My kid did Spanish 1, 2 and 3 in middle school, and Spanish 4 and AP in high school. . Since he took Spanish AP in 10th grade, we were worried that the college would only see 2 years of Spanish in HS. But we were assured that all the HS credits earned in MS would be counted. So, colleges saw him as taking 5 years of foreign language all the way to AP course. He is in UMD now.

We saw that every college (and the common app) gets the HS credit earned in MS on the transcript and they take that into account. Finally, if you finish the highest course in foreign language offered in the HS it does not matter how many years you studied it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about UMD? Does UMD count the high school credits earned in middle school?

Yes. My kid did Spanish 1, 2 and 3 in middle school, and Spanish 4 and AP in high school. . Since he took Spanish AP in 10th grade, we were worried that the college would only see 2 years of Spanish in HS. But we were assured that all the HS credits earned in MS would be counted. So, colleges saw him as taking 5 years of foreign language all the way to AP course. He is in UMD now.

We saw that every college (and the common app) gets the HS credit earned in MS on the transcript and they take that into account. Finally, if you finish the highest course in foreign language offered in the HS it does not matter how many years you studied it.

Wanted to add - my DS is unhooked, Asian-American, STEM field, MCPS. He met the language requirements in all the colleges he applied to (T-20 colleges), private and public, even though he was done with AP in 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

I would think an engineering major with a 1580 SAT, 4.0 goa, plus many leadership positions would be ok with just three years of WL.