Would taken chinese lower my chances of going into a good college?

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Spoken Cantonese and spoken Mandarin are at least as different from each other as spoken English and spoken Russian. Any admissions office that doesn’t get that, is at a place you wouldn’t want to attend.

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<p>I would disagree. It will certainly be easier for you as a Cantonese speaker to learn Mandarin, but that doesn’t mean that a college is going to somehow penalize you because of it or that you can’t “challenge” yourself. If you have an interest, then do it.</p>