My bilingual students have recently been asking me about meeting the college A-G requirements and the foreign language piece. One clever student reasonably asked if he could, "use English as his foreign language." No, sorry. But there are many ways for bilingual students to meet the foreign language requirement. The easiest option is taking the SAT Subject Test in your native language. If you score well, the foreign language requirement is waived. Unfortunately, there isn't an SAT Subject Test in every language. If your language isn't tested, you can have your high school certify your fluency and make a note of it on your transcript. This method also waives the foreign language requirement.
Of course, another way to think about this question is to realize that if you are already fluent in two languages, picking up a third language would make you even more competitive for college and employment. Go ahead and take those two years of foreign language and you'll be on your way to being trilingual!
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