Will this hurt my chances?

whitneybenning
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:23:54 +0000

I am applying to HYP, Columbia, Northwestern, Dartmouth etc. and I haven’t taken any foreign language classes in high school. I don’t know why I didn’t, but there is nothing I can do about it now. I know that the top schools only “recommend” that you have 3-4 years of a foreign language, but I feel as though this will hurt my chances. Its something that all the other distinguished applicants will have and I wont. How big of a set back is this?