<p>His comment is not just about math majors, but STEM. Foreign language has as little to do with biology or chemistry or engineering as it does with mathematics.</p>
<p>The nature of education in top schools in the United States is that they expect you to be competent in many different areas, while also being exceptional in some way. Even schools like MIT and Caltech expect high grades in non-STEM classes.</p>
<p>Lookingforward was saying that your competition is stiff, because there are many people with excellent records in math and science, who have also taken foreign language. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible and you should certainly inquire directly about your own situation, but foreign language is definitely a factor. </p>