Doubling up on foreign language in HS.

psych_2
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:24:20 +0000

(Not directed to the OP’s D, as I don’t think she could go wrong here. Very impressive! )

From a purely admissions standpoint, IMO, a language with a different writing system is likely to impress adcoms more than one that uses the Roman alphabet. I was proficient. though not fluent, in Japanese, and I think it did stick out to the adcoms more so than a similar level in, say, Spanish or French, even though Japanese is, IMO, no harder than those and much less useful than Spanish in most situations (I LOVE Japanese, but in some ways wish I had studied Spanish, as it would have been more useful). I think the fact whole idea of another writing system just makes a language sound much harder (and therefore, more impressive) to people in general, including adcoms