<p>I meet all the requirements to get into a school but when I look at the recommendation’s for courses I don’t. For example UVA recommends 5 credits of a foreign language and 5 credits of Math. It would be impossible for me to recieve 5 credits of Foreign Language since I am a junior and in Spanish 3. The closest I could get to meeting these are by taking a 4th year of Spanish (which i don’t want to do) or taking a second Math course in addition to the one I’m already taking (AP Stats and PreCalculus- both hard), but I couldn’t do both. So how much do these school given reccomendations matter?</p>
<p>generally, if you can fulfil the recommendations, make the effort to do so, but don’t bend over backwards to do so. And yes, in some cases that’s going to require you taking classes you don’t enjoy, or courses that are challenging. Now you’ll likely find very few people advocating for you taking the former, but as to avoiding courses because they’re hard, well, if you don’t want to be challenged, why are you applying to UVa? Schools recognize taking a rigorous curriculum isn’t always fun, but that’s part of the reason behind it: they want to find students not afraid to challenge themselves.</p>