Hey just wanted to say that I think your info may be a bit out of date. As a Dartmouth student who only studied a foreign language freshmen year of HS, an who was looking at a number of other schools like it, and who knows a lot of people at those schools, none of these schools has a requirement that you study a foreign language prior to applying. They may recommend certain years studying each core area, but in my experience, if you’re not planning on majoring in a language or related field, foreign language is the least important of those core areas to admission.
(That is, with the exception of georgetown’s foreign service program which does require foreign languages in high school)
Dartmouth has a foreign language program, which is excellent, and required for those who didnt do it in high school. Hundreds of students take foreign languages to fulfill that requirement every year. It’s very common not to have extensively studied a foreign language prior to admission at a number of these schools. The same is not true for any of the other core areas, which are generally deemed necessary. But that’s usually not expressed as any kind of requirement.