Hello,
Applying for the 2026 cycle as a newish university grad, and I've done some classes on the Japanese language and Japanese history in the past. I do think that these would be an asset, but there is one problem: My most recent attempt at taking a Japanese language class happened to coincide with a particularly low point in my life and I ended up failing the 200-level course. After that I always intended on giving it another go but other courses for my actual major and bad timing ended up getting in the way.
It's on my transcript, so they're obviously going to see this. I'm very confident that if I were to try again I'd do much better-I've turned a lot around in the time since, but there's no real way they would know this unless they extrapolate from other classes. That class still has the F attached to it and that won't be going away. What I'm wondering is how serious of a knock against my candidacy this would be? Is it worse to have tried and failed in Japanese-language studies that if I had never tried it in the first place?
by LinkToSomething68