<p>How much does Duke care about foreign language requirement, I took up to spanish 2 and i dropped my foreign language. Now i have enrolled in a community college to take chinese and next summer i will go to china to study chinese. Would this furfill the requirement.</p>
<p>Also my stats arnt very strong to start. Frosh and Sophmore years weak and Senior and Junior year strong will finish with a 4.0</p>
<p>I’m sure that if you are still taking foreign language, dropping Spanish will not hurt your cause at Duke. I took only 3 years of Spanish (granted, up to AP Spanish Language) and did not take any language at all my senior year of high school (Taking AP Spanish Lit first thing in the morning would be too much of a grind). Nevertheless, I still got accepted at Duke, so that will not make or break you, as long as you take at least 3 years of language, even if it is one year of Spanish and two years of Chinese.</p>
<p>Regarding your grades… if you are on the upswing, that looks better than if your grades are getting worse each year. However, it’s always better to get excellent grades all 4 years. No one here can really comment on whether or not that will mean you will get into Duke or not. Although not as difficult as getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, getting into Duke is a crapshoot, especially when you apply next year or the year after, because applications are only going to increase at Duke. Make sure you stay committed to your extracurriculars (don’t just do activities to pad your resume but instead because you are interested in them) and spend a lot of time on writing sincere essays (with your voice). Also, keep your mind open to a lot of colleges, since there are so many awesome ones out there, like Rice University!</p>
<p>Is the OP talking about requirements for admissions or the actual FL graduation requirements at Duke? </p>
<p>If it’s admissions, Duke doesn’t have any such requirements that I know of. I think they assume that as long as you’ve met you HS graduation requirement, you should be reasonably prepared for college-level work. Even if you’ve never taken an FL, that’s why Duke has intro language classes. </p>
<p>If it’s the actual Duke graduation requirement for FL, it’s likely that what you’ve done are not enough to fulfill that requirement. I think the requirement is 3 foreign language classes or one at the 100-level. Unless your HS courses were AP or IB or some other recognized advance coursework, the most you can get out of that is placement into a higher course. As for community college coursework and study abroad, that falls under transfer credits. Duke is very very strict about transfer credits and if you don’t have approval for transfer before you take the course, it’s very hard to get Duke to accept it. The most likely scenario is that you’ll receive placement into a higher course like a 100-level, in which case you’d only need one course to satisfy the requirement.</p>
<p>Regarding Chinese (which I took to satisfy my requirements), I know that 3 years ago, all students must take a placement exam and are placed into courses based on that. I don’t know if they still do that but chances are if you ask, they can make it happen. That said, I’ve never heard of anyone, no matter how advanced, receiving credit for chinese courses not taken at Duke or through the Duke in China program so your chances of dodging that requirement is almost none.</p>
<p>thanks for the answers and you answered my questions, but if still curious, my question was admission. i read online that they had a recommended that 4 years of FL. thanks for the answers</p>
<p>^I only took 2 years of Spanish and I only went to Spanish II. They recommend you take 3-4 years of a FL or some other challenging course load. I went for some other challenging course load.</p>