OP - If your child has trouble learning language, Sign up for 1A for 7th and 1B for 8th. That WILL meet the RMIB requirement of enrollment in language level 1 in 8th.

OP run searches on the College Forum of this site for FL or Foreign Languages at college. There's been a few threads recently about the importance of taking a full 4 yrs to AP level (where offered) and variations on that, depending on the college, the major etc.