<p>The following is from the Office of the Class Deans (link here: [Office</a> of the Class Deans](<a href=“http://www.wellesley.edu/ClassDeans/degree.html]Office”>http://www.wellesley.edu/ClassDeans/degree.html) ) </p>
<p>Foreign Language Requirement</p>
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<li><p>You can satisfy the foreign language requirement in the following ways: by receiving a score of 690 or better on an SAT-II test or a 5 on an A.P. exam (4 for students who began before fall 2006); or by successfully completing two units of language study at the second-year level (in the same department) or one unit of language study at the third-year level.</p></li>
<li><pre><code> All introductory and intermediate languages listed in the College Bulletin as “(1-2)” are full-year courses. This means that you will lose credit for the first semester in these courses unless you successfully complete the second semester. In reviewing your grade report, make sure that you have been granted the appropriate credit.
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<li><p>You cannot receive credit for more than two years of modern foreign language at the introductory level.</p></li>
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<p>The easiest and most straightforward way to satisfy the language requirement is to get the AP 5 or SAT II 690. That’s what I did (AP German 5). I am not 100% sure how the foreign language requirement works if you don’t have the test score, but place out of the 201/202 level (which is the level that you would have to complete if you were starting a language–ie, if you had never taken a language before and decided to begin with, say, Spanish, you would take Spanish 101/102 and 201/202 and would be done). I <em>think</em> that the way it works is if you place higher than the 201/202 level, that counts as satisfying the language requirement, but I am not 100% confident about that. I also don’t know how they treat a second languages not offered at Wellesley–if it is offered, you could just place out of it, but I just don’t know how it works otherwise. It doesn’t really matter how many years of a language you have taken–for example, if I had not gotten a 5 on the German AP test and had tested into 201, I would have had to take 201/202 to fulfill my German requirement even though I had taken 4 years of German. </p>
<p>I hope this clarifies at least somewhat. If you are very worried about the language requirement I can try to get the blanks filled in, though.</p>