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Is a second language necessary when you apply for college/university in Canada?

April_V asked:


Tonight I have to select my courses for the next school year (grade 11 for me).

My mom recently went back to college, UBC Okanagan, and she will NOT let me take a second language in high school. She says that nearly all universities/colleges will let you in w/o a second language credit, as long as you get a credit at the school, or they won’t let you graduate.

But my high school chancellors all say that this is unique to UBCO and no other post-secondary’s do this. In other words, if I don’t take a language now, I either spend another year in high school after grade 12 to get the language credit, or I’m forced into UBCO (which is a terrible school, I do not want to go there at all) for a year and then transferring to a better school.

Is it true that there aren’t many school that let you in w/o the credit, or is my mom right?

If I need to, I can get into Spanish or German into 11, but I don’t want to unless it’s the only way to get out of wasting a year of my life for one credit. I’d have to fake a bunch of report cards, try and keep my mom from going to the PT meetings, hide the textbook, etc. It’s do-able, but it’s a HUGE risk for me.

(I’m heading into humanities, not science, so I will need a language at some point, for sure.)

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One Response to “Is a second language necessary when you apply for college/university in Canada?”

  1. ITFC on May 30th, 2009 5:07 am

    I think you are correct and, unfortunately, your mother is wrong.