Our program offers a very specialized curriculum. While we, on  occasion, have admitted students with less preparation in the past, our  numbers of applications have grown in recent years to the point that we  have now become a more competitive program, and so we are focusing more  tightly on our core mission. In addition, graduate programs have become  increasingly selective with their admissions. Students whose formal  training amounts to less than two years in either Greek or Latin are  not discouraged from applying to Penn, but are advised to consider  additional language preparation prior to applying.