I don’t know of any decent college or university that would view “other aspects” of your application to make up for a “core” foreign language class.
When I went to high school, way back in the caveman days, I entered my high school fluent in Spanish. My counselor, in ninth grade, said “because you are a native speaker of Spanish, the schools will not accept that as your foreign language- we would have no academic record of that. Our high school university targets, at that time, were the UC schools.
My options were to take Japanese, French, German, or Latin. I chose to take French for 4 years, since it was so similar to Spanish.
The universities need to see how you perform, in a foreign language, along with all your other core classes.
I don’t think you understand that foreign language is a core requirement, and if you don’t have the minimum of four years, in competitive schools, you’re not getting into a number of schools.