Stanford Foreign Language Requirement for Admission

aunt_bea
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:49:00 +0000

Way back when, I came from a Spanish speaking home, and I met with my counselor and she asked about colleges… At that time, my counselor asked if I would be applying to any privates. I told her that I might. She told me, you need a learn a language that is “foreign” to your environment. I took French for 4 years and took the AP Spanish test for “fun”.

So if you speak English, and your parents speak Spanish, how do you communicate? I can’t believe that in all of that time, at home, you never learned to speak your home language.

It’s not much of a stretch to assume that if your last name has a Spanish surname, they will assume you didn’t go out of your comfort level.