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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]At most elite unis [/b]where there is a language requirement for graduation, there will be a placement test. So 4 years of language will presumably help your DC over just 3 years and a one year pause between their last class and the placement test.[/quote]

Um, most universities have a language requirement/placement test, regardless of "elite" status.   :roll: [/quote]

USC doesn’t have a language requirement. [/quote]

Yes it does.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/languages/foreign-language-requirement/#:~:text=%20Fulfilling%20the%20Foreign%20Language%20Requirement%20%201,examination%20%28AP%20or%20International%20Baccalaureate%20Higher...%20More%20[/quote]

That’s the liberal arts college. Marshall School of Business and Engineering Schools do not. 
Most highly ranked engineering schools don’t have language requirement. 
Many business schools don’t, even if the liberal arts college at the same university does
Also case western, MIT, Amherst, Rice,  also don’t [/quote]

Interesting.. I never understood why language was a requirement in college, given that the vast majority of kids graduating out of college in the US work in the US and pretty much everywhere I've gone over the course of my life in the US - for business or pleasure - I've never had the need to speak another language.  of course, for those that want to learn a second language, for whatever reason, classes should be available.

Before someone lectures me on the "joys of multi-lingualism", please save your breath.  I'm fluent in 4 languages, and have lived on 3 continents.  [/quote]

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