Is the RC worth it?

kb54010
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:06:41 +0000

1st off…let me express my complete jealousy at your fluency…

When you do orientation, you can take the spanish placement test which will probably be pretty easy for you. You can test out of the language req. that way. Same deal with the RC, except in addition to the LSA proficiency test, you’d have to take RC proficiency (exactly the same thing as the test the kids take after 2 semesters of intensive). You are an hablante nativo, so you should be fine.

I would personally love to have you in the RC, just because the more opportunities there are to speak spanish (or w/e language) it adds to the RC atmosphere. Also, the RC has language readings courses which are interesting, taught in foreign languages, and not available to LSA kids. Also, you could tutor other spanish students for comm. service if you wanted ( you can also do this in the LSA spanish department, but I’d save yourself the torture of hearing the spanish language bludgeoned to death by LSA kids).

Besides the language stuff, the RC does have other things to offer, but a lot of it is focused on the later studies.