quote=“carlsen;d-2159701” exemption from taking a foreign language in college. How common is it for schools to exempt students with a 4 or 5 on a foreign language from the requirement. What is a typical SAT subject test cutoff for exemption?
(2) having one less humanities credit to take for distribution requirements. Do many colleges count AP foreign language credit towards humanities distribution requirements?
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Each depends on the college (and sometimes the division, since engineering divisions are less likely than arts & sciences divisions to require foreign language to graduate). Surely, he has a preliminary list of colleges of interest by now that you can do some checking on.
Note that for (1), many colleges have their own foreign language placement tests as well; doing well enough on those may reduce or eliminate the foreign language course work required for a graduation requirement.
Seems like if in doubt and the testing fee is not an issue, he may as well take the AP French exam, because it may be helpful.
As others have said, AP statistics will not be useful for subject credit or advanced placement for majors that require calculus-based statistics (including any engineering major that requires statistics, statistics, and economics at many colleges where calculus is required).
UC campuses and divisions have varying foreign language graduation requirements that are often higher than the admission requirement. SAT subject test scores appear to be uncommon in terms of acceptance to fulfill the requirement on their own.