College entrance requirements and non-traditional distribution

[Ms. Toad]

My daughter isn't home schooled, but her school has been quite uncooperative in allowing her to do the broad based education she wants (honors academic + 4 years of art and 4 years of vocal music - and is currently #1 in her class) and still meet college entrance requirements. She can only complete the four years of art and music if she forfeits either the academic track or foreign languages.

We've offered quite a few solutions - I'm a certified math teacher, took precalculus without formally being in the class when I was her age, taught precalculus - and the school absolutely refused to allow her to either do independent study in precalculus - or to be enrolled in the class, do all of the work, take all of the exams without having her body in the classroom. She took PE during summer school last summer to free up her schedule to get her body into a French III class, but do the French II curriculum (which was approved - but the counselor decided it was too inconvenient to rearrange her schedule). She took the ACT test early last year so she could enroll in the post-secondary option if the French was not going to fit again this (her senior) year - but the counselor didn't bother to tell us there was a problem (for the second year)( until after the enrollment deadline passed.

Anyway, she's had one year of French - which is not enough for current standards at most liberal arts colleges.

Anyone had any success getting into selective schools with a non-traditional distribution?

In the alternative, what have you found is the best way to establish knowledge in a particular subject area (she's currently doing the Rosetta Stone home schooling version of French - and we hope to have her be able to show knowledge of French which she gained outside of the classroom. We'll have the exam scores - one college suggested the CLEP exam, in addition. What have you found is the best way to "objectively" establish knowledge?