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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  I appreciate the poster who posted the information from UVA's website.  That is extremely helpful and I will share it with my child.  I think we have the answer and the risk seems too high not to take the foreign language class.[/quote]

Y[b]es, I appreciated the Dean blog post as well. [/quote][/b]

YES, UVA wants to see four years.  Then UVA (after admittance) will want to see at least another year of college level foreign language.  this is because it (correctly) thinks it is educating citizens of the world who will have to deal with many languages in the workplace.  The only applicants that get out of this are the occasional stem students who are URM or first-generation or have some other statiscial data point that the university seeks.  this is a fact. My college was the same.  Yes, you will find people saying otherwise but if you delve into the situation (which you cannot here) you will learn that the student is not a normal case.

FWIW my UVA kid entered with (belligerently) four years of Spanish and then when faced with the UVA offerings for language (HUGE! amazing! UVA must keep a huge number of foreign language specialists ready to teach! Urdu? no problem) picked German.  Loved it and traveled to Munich for a winter semester aboard. And now he's overseas for graduate work ther.  You have no idea where these languages might take them.[/quote]

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