<p>Unfortunately, there seems to be a cycle where high school budget cutbacks mean that high schools cut less popular foreign languages, which induces students to choose the more popular ones (i.e. Spanish, maybe French), which further makes offering the less popular ones cost ineffective from the high school’s point of view.</p>
<p>Since you are in California, note that UC and CSU require only second year of high school foreign language, or SAT subject score (e.g. 510 for German; varies by language), or college course equivalent to or greater than second year of high school foreign language, for admission. But UC recommends three years, and graduation requirements at UC and CSU may be greater than the second year of high school foreign language. Note that UC and CSU also consider precalculus or higher math as fulfilling the entire admission requirement for math (which is actually only three years, or normally algebra 2, though it is inadvisable for any college bound student to stop at that level).</p>
<p>If he is a native or heritage speaker of a foreign language for which there is an AP test, SAT subject test, or other well recognized language proficiency test, then doing well on such a test may help with respect to some colleges.</p>