<p>I don’t think it has that much of a edge. With Mandarin becoming more and more available at schools across the U.S. it’s not that rare of a thing to see students taking the class. Plus a lot of the time people just take the class for kicks. One of my friends took it last year and she said the majority of the students in the class were rowdy football players. She referred to the class as a “ratchet” class. Plus a lot of kids in my school just take the class because they flunked out of their regular language and decided to be “spontaneous and original”
But that doesn’t really say much for the difficulty of the class. Granted, Mandarin could be harder than a lot of people expect but because it’s becoming seen more and more as just a popular language class, colleges probably don’t hold any more weight on it than other languages.</p>
<p>But the fact that you get good grades in the class should be good enough because it won’t look like you’re taking the class for granted.</p>