<p>toothpick: Yes, you’re expected to still take another course, but no, colleges will not “look down on you” for taking the SAT in your own language, but it simply won’t count nearly as much as if it wasn’t your native tongue.</p>
<p>For example, a white or black dude with an 750 on SAT II Chinese will blow away college admissions officer. I have a friend (white guy) who was 4th in his class out of ~100, 1600SAT, 800 Biology, 800 Physics, 760 Chemistry. After he sent in these scores, he decided to take the SAT II Chinese and Korean (for fun) and guess randomly. He got a 580 and a 560 respectively, and he sent these in. At every interview he had, the interviewers were way more impressed by the 580 and the 560 than anything else on his resume, despite the fact that he was in the bottom 10 percentile for both scores.</p>