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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are targeting top 20 colleges, do they all require 4 years of world language? Is there a way to easily find who all require 4 years of world language. Kid is in high school and she wants to decide whether to pursue 4th year. Thanks![/quote]

Yes. The Common Data Set is your friend.

And where is says "recommended", read that as "required".[/quote]

I quickly went through few of the top colleges website to look at their CDS.
First, thanks for telling about CDS. I wasn't aware of this and found this very helpful.

It seems most of the Ivies require (and also Univ of VA). [b]Yale doesn't say anything.[/b] I couldn't find info on Columbia Univ.  Nothwestern, Duke, Cornell, MIT, CMU don't recommend.
 
I am thinking if you are targeting engineering school like MIT, CMU etc..then 4 years of FL is not needed but if you have a kid who doesn't know what they want to do after HS, maybe it makes sense to just take 4 years of FL to be safe.
Now question is universities who recommend, how strict they are about this. Do they right away reject the app if they don't see 4 year FL? Even if they don't reject, if there is a choice between two students (one with 4 years of FL and one with less than 4), maye they would give preference to 4 years of FL student?

[/quote]Yale wants the top students in the class who have taken the most rigorous courses, i.e., have challenged themselves: "Academic Ability
Yale is above all an academic institution. This means academic strength is our first consideration in evaluating any candidate. The single most important document in your application is your high school transcript, which tells us a great deal about your academic drive and performance over time. We look for students who have consistently taken a broad range of challenging courses in high school and have done well. Your high school teachers can provide extremely helpful information in their evaluations. Not only do they discuss your performance in their particular class or classes, but often they write about such things as your intellectual curiosity, energy, relationships with classmates, and impact on the classroom environment. Obviously it is important to ask for recommendations from teachers who know you well.P

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