<p>Um, do you think that it would be ok for you to take a class in Elementary school English and get credits for it at an American college?</p>
<p>The deal with calculus is that most really have lacking knowledge about it even after the AP courses so it can often be good for people to actually take it, also it is a college level course. Beginner courses in languages are however not really college level things, you take them just as fillers for the points. </p>
<p>Now, you might think that you should be awarded free fillers or something but why should you? It is not you who are being treated badly here imo, it is those who get free courses who are treated too nicely.</p>
<p>Think like this, why do colleges even have the filler courses?</p>
<p>Edit: Also it would be a huge waste for a native speaker to take the basic courses, the deal with native speakers is that you got the speech and such but you lack the formal education meaning that you will need a vastly different type of class to teach you compared to someone who starts from scratch. And everyone speaks maths, everyone have taken at least 9 years of maths classes, the equivalence of this in maths would be if you could take courses in college on how to add and subtract numbers, it would be quite ridiculous.</p>