<p>for a highly competitive college. My daughter wants to take the AP Spanish test only but not the class. She prefers to take science and math instead of AP Spanish. My question is would taking the AP test would help her at all when applying for college (she wants to get into a top college) or would SAT II will help more than the AP test? thanks a lot..</p>
<p>AP exams are not substitutes for the SAT II. The SAT II will help far more if she's ready for it.</p>
<p>The SAT2 would be a lot better. Most colleges will give her credit for them depending on her score, or they might waive the foreign language requirement. Plus, a lot of top schools want two SAT subject tests. I think it is one thats your choice, and the other should be MathII.</p>
<p>Why not just take both tests if she's good at Spanish? I'm sure most of the topics covered on the AP test will also be tested on the SAT II.</p>
<p>if she gets 4 or 5 in the AP test then she could get college credit so it's the same with SAT II - if she scores high enough she could get credit for college, right? according to her high school, AP test is much harder than SAT II is that true? if she could get college credit by AP test or SAT II ..why an AP test is more difficult?
I'm just trying to figure out which choice, AP test or SAT II, will give my daughter more competitive advantage when applying for a top college..again, thanks..</p>
<p>Do colleges even use the results of AP exams for college admission ? I always thought that AP exams were something that colleges considered only to those kids that actually enroll.</p>
<p>Lol, MBJ i hope you are right. And MOM112233, if she takes 3 SATS 2 tests the, after that there is no point in taking anymore. However if she hasn't taken 3 then it would be in her best interests to do both.</p>
<p>Not all schools give credit for SAT II exams. A lot of smaller colleges will accept a high SAT II language score (at Bryn Mawr it's 690+) to fulfill the language requirement but do not award academic credit for it. All schools I have heard of give credits for high AP language scores though.</p>
<p>I also doubt that it's a good idea to take the AP Spanish exam without a Spanish class in the same year. The AP exam involves a lot of (timed!) writing and that might be hard to do well on if one has not practiced writing extensively.</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests for top college admission. AP tests for college credit.
However, not all top colleges are as ready to give credit for AP results as are lower ranked schools. Sometimes, like high Subject Test scores, they can be used to "place out" otherwise required courses.</p>
<p>If a school requires SAT II's, it requires SAT II's, and AP tests cannot be substituted for them. Some schools that don't "require" SAT II's say that they'll take the scores into account if you submit them. Again, AP tests are not necessarily considered for admission. If a school doesn't require SAT II's, and doesn't take them into account, then it doesn't matter which she takes.</p>
<p>Check the schools' websites to see if SAT II and/or AP tests can be used to place out of particular classes. Some schools say yes, and some say no.</p>
<p>I thought that if you take SAT IIs, those scores are sent to the colleges along with the SAT I scores. I was under the impression that a student could NOT send just the SAT I scores to the school. I guess I could be wrong...
Thanks. Marc</p>
<p>Nope, MBJ. You are right.</p>
<p>If schools do NOT require or even recommend SAT IIs, and they are sent along with the SAT Is, will schools use them to evaluate regardless of their stated policy of non-use ?</p>
<p>It could happen.
But schools that require them of all applicants are the most used to comparing candidates on this stated criteria. They are sometimes fed into rating algorithms as well. They are very important at schools which require them.
It is just a guess, but I would think they might become a factor at other schools if they were shockingly low or impressively high. Otherwise I wouldn't be very concerned.</p>
<p>Mom112233, 1]
the AP tests are harder, because they are based on a more intensive class [which duplicates first year college level classes], and the tests are 2hrs long, with heavy writng involved, whereas the SAt II's are 1 hr long, and multiple choice.'
2] If she takes AP classes and does well on them and on the tests [scores 4 or 5] it will be "plus" for her as far as how her college application will be evaluated.
This is how we strategized the SAT II/ AP testing for my son during his JR year. If he was taking an AP class, he took both the relevant SAT II's and the AP exam for the class- AP's in May, and the SAT II's in June. That way he got both the SAT II requirements out of the way and had the added bonus of AP test results which he was able to send to colleges. So for APUSH [ US History], he took the AP exam in May and the SAT II US History exam in June. Just a word of caution: more than 2 SAT II's in one sitting can be pretty rough.</p>
<p>thanks menloparkmom, we are in a dilema because max load per semester is 7 classes and she does not have room for a AP Spanish class. My daughter prefer to take AP math or science..so as a possiblity she tought about AP test only or SATII to look good on her college application...thanks for your feedback AP test and then SATII is a feasible option for ther other AP classes..</p>