Can you satisfy high school foreign language credit requirements if you're bilingual?

Ray192 · 06-07-2006, 10:25 PM

I took French up to level II and then I gave up because the teacher was awful and my schedule was full. But I'm pretty fluent in Chinese (which I can show with an 800 SAT score), so could that make up for the deficiency (I know some schools required 3-4 years of a foreign language).

College_Here_I_Come! · 06-07-2006, 11:14 PM

hmm..... you'd probably want to ask your counselor or even call the school and ask

mediocreme · 06-07-2006, 11:15 PM

Yeah, ask your counselor.

In my school district, you can test out of classes and earn credits. They're called Credit By Exam or something like that. But the tests are only offered in a few subject areas.

RainBell · 06-08-2006, 03:01 AM

well i'm chinese too, but i took two years of spanish: 2 and 4.

i'm going to take french 4 next year, coz i heard that they got a very harsh french teacher, yay, harsh teachers make me feel more confident on tests.

When did you move here? like me i've just been in US for 2 years, so probably no university would recognize my score on SAT chinese, and actually i don't even bother to take it.