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Does your school require you to actually take 5 semesters, or can you place out of some/all of it? As far as I'm concerned, all you've done is demonstrate either poor self-awareness, poor awareness of the requirements of your chosen major, or poor decision making. Not sure why you'd want to highlight this for law schools. Without a foreign language requirement my GPA would have been be half as far away from 4.0 as it was when I graduated. I have reasons for that too. I was too lazy to take an AP exam in high school, too lazy to study for the exam to place out of the language requirement at my school, and too lazy to work hard in the language classes I did take. Am I going to highlight my laziness for law schools when/if I apply? No. Should you highlight your poor choices? Your call.BKCentral wrote:Well I am a history major, and, unlike other majors at my school for which the university requires only 3 semesters of langs, history requires 5 semesters. After taking a couple of Russian history courses and thoroughly enjoying them Freshmen year, I decided to start out by taking Russian language at the advice of a friend and professor (who said it would be good to get a "specialty." After receiving a C+ and then an F, I decided to drop Russian and go with French which I hoped would be easier. I received a B+, C+, and B so far, with one more semester to go. Other than foreign language, I'm mainly a A, A-, and some B+s student.
Although I realize the schools might notice this trend on their own, I just wondered if it would be OK to point it out, or whether it would even be beneficial to do so.
Basically I could have dropped the major to take an easier major w. less lang-reqs, but I decided not to do so, even knowing that my GPA would be lowered because of my ineptness as languages, because of my love for history.