Okay... the question I asked might be awkward, but for college degrees within the United States, there are usually general education requirement courses that have to be taken (I think it is needed for accreditation), which would include a composition requirement. Most universities should attest to ensuring that students attain a certain growth in writing and reading competencies as shown by various writing-intensive courses and seminars. Most of those classes are taken in freshman year (no later than sophomore year), and even engineering curricula I have reviewed has a component of writing (in English) as a degree or program requirement. Consequently, most if not all US bachelor's degree students can get the English/composition/writing requirement very early, so it would look a little odd to me that you would have one late in your academic experience.
Canadian schools do not have this same requirement, so I often see a lot of science majors from Canadian universities where they only take science and math courses and nothing in humanities, social sciences, or writing. These are the students that I generally see playing late catch-up to fulfill the English requirement to complete their prereqs before starting dental school. I also see a number of pharmacy school applicants who delay getting their speech course requirement, but they would generally already have their writing requirement in.
