Harvard Course Requirements

[abbylee]

Gohar: “Your counselor gave me your grades”
Me: “Oh shi-“

[emiller]

Would they accept 2 years if your school does offer more but you weren't able to take more because of scheduling?

[adr]

Seriously, foreign language is highly underrated. I can count on one hand how many times I’ve had to use high school math in the real world while Spanish has saved me from some very awkward situations

[stars_eq]

“I see you want to apply to Harvard”
*Wait slow down slow down, I’m in middle school damn-*

[navyaaagarwal]

Me learning French since 6th grade and our school teaching it 10th 🥳

[del_]

English wouldn't count as a foreign language would it? Coz I come from a country where official language is smth else 😅

[choco_cornet]

Me:*studied Chinese for 10 years still can't tell the difference between a horse and mother

[divyasrijay]

Would taking 4 credits of a foreign language over 2 years be the same as what the school means by taking 4 years of a language?

[SunnySixStreet]

You literally have to be perfect for harvard. That level of pretentiousness is just not for me

[whydoistillexist]

I mean in Switzerland we have to learn english from 2nd grade on- so no matter what in Switzerland you will have four years and in 4th grade you’ll learn French till you get through the school you have to

[KiwiEugen]

Would Harvard accept 3? Because I didn’t get the hang of highschool until a counselor came in one day and explained it to us

[mikoikho]

We only have Spanish in my high school and I would by FAR be more engaged if I was able to do foreign language online so that I can actually learn something I want to

[mohinimishra]

So I’m from a country where we have another language as our mother-tongue, I have learned that language since i could probably speak and I have learnt English for, now, 12 years, and I still have 4 more years of school. There’s also an option of third language for our school and I’ve been learning French for, now, 4 years and I will most likely take it for at least 1-2 more years. But for those who hadn’t taken the third language, would our mother-tongue count as the ‘foreign language’ ?

[BigLepordy]

I’m required to as an IB student lol, so by graduation I will have 6 or 7 (depending if 6th grade counted) language credits

[aphroditesaphrodisiac]

Why the foreign language requirement? Albert Einstein was horrible at languages. "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life tjinking that it's stupid".

[Sfp]

I’m planning to do 3-4 years probably 3 so tysm for the chart

[graceanne.]

I’m gonna need this guy when I’m in college

[ameliehodge]

My mom has always HEAVILY emphasized languages on college applications, so I'm going to continue taking Spanish throughout high school, though I enjoy it so I probably would anyway :)

[JJ-lwvu]

So glad my middle school had me take foreign language. I took a year of Latin in sixth grade, and two years of Spanish during years 7 and 8. I plan on taking Spanish until I am fluent and then taking some french. I will most likely take more Latin courses as well because I learned nothing in my 6th grade year lol.

[razvansamoila]

When you live in Europe so you take a second language since elementary school