QUOTE=JHS There are many elite universities that are happy to accept proof of fluency in a language other than English by test as satisfying the university’s foreign language study requirements, either pre-admission or as a degree requirement, even when the language is the student’s native tongue and English his second language. I don’t know if that’s true of the UCs, though.
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As noted in reply #4, the UCs and CSUs have listed various ways for native and heritage speakers to fulfill foreign language requirements without needing high school or college foreign language courses.