Quad-lingual URM ??!?

Applying to College
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<p>does knowing four languages ( English Spanish Russian and Japanese) and being an URM be an advantage when I apply to college ?</p>

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<p>As far as I know, Harvard is the only elite college that asks specifically if an applicant can read/speak/write certain languages.</p>

<p>Sure, knowledge is always an asset…</p>

<p>As well as skin color.</p>

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<p>pacer: do you just want some back slapping or did you really not think that those attributes are advantages?</p>

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<p>I’m asking a question because I do not know the answer!</p>

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<p>they are.
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<p>pacers: a good strategy for attaining your desires is to imagine what others want. If you were sitting on the admissions committee of a college, would you find those attributes desirable?</p>

<p>Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>I think its impressive but it depends on the major your going into, if your going into international business that may help you more then another student who only speaks english. Also maybe you want to write about diversity and speaking four languages in a college essay.</p>

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<p>It will certainly help.
I’m curious though, how did you get to know those four languages?</p>

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<p>@ honorscentaur</p>

<p>I’m hispanic and i grew up knowing both Spanish and English </p>

<p>My brother has a minor in Russian so he taught me and now me and him always speak Russian to each other </p>

<p>And I took two years of Japanese</p>

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<p>Two years of a language hardly constitutes fluency in a language. 謙譲語、丁寧語などをご存じますか？「せい」と「ため」の逆の裏意味をご存じますか？そうではないと、流暢であると思わないでください。</p>

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<p>i’m also a quad-lingual urm</p>

<p>i didn’t even include the language i’m learning in school either</p>

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<p>Agree, particularly a language like Japanese.</p>

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<p>Quad-lingual is really not that impressive</p>

<p>A foreigner (Japanese for instance) living in the U.S. (English) who has taken a few required language courses (Spanish) is already tri-lingual. So you basically have 1 more language than most non-white applicants, and I doubt you’re very fluent in the 4th.</p>

<p>URM will help you a lot more</p>

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<p>Japanese takes many years to learn, due to its large amount of characters. And slightly strange grammar. 2 years isn’t fluent at all.</p>

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<p>“Me and him?” Your English grammar skills make me wonder about your definition of fluency, but if you really learned Russian from your brother, that’s pretty impressive.</p>