What if I don't have the language requirement for Cornell CAS?

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@HappyHelper

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.

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<p>However, math PhD programs may expect PhD students to have a reading knowledge of one or more foreign languages in which math research papers are published (French, German, or Russian are common options).</p>

<p><a href=“https://math.mit.edu/academics/grad/timeline/language.php”>https://math.mit.edu/academics/grad/timeline/language.php&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://web.math.princeton.edu/~templier/language-exam.txt”>http://web.math.princeton.edu/~templier/language-exam.txt&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“Harvard Mathematics Department Graduate Information”>http://www.math.harvard.edu/graduate/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/programs/graduate/phd-program”>http://math.berkeley.edu/programs/graduate/phd-program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;