<p>I'm deciding what's the best SAT subject triplet to pick. </p>
<p>I know I'm definitely picking bio. Then my three other choices: US history, Lit, and Chem?</p>
<p>1)Biology, Chemistry, US history (or world?!?!?)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>2)Biology, Literature, US history (or world?)</p>
<p>After doing research, I heard that colleges like triplets that are from each subject, like one science, one english, and one history.</p>
<p>Then again aren't you suppose to pick subject tests that relate to your major(s)? I want to major in psychology and become a psychiatrist, or something in the medical field, hence my choice of picking chemistry. and if I'm lucky, throw in another major: Japanese, Asian culture, or something along the lines of that.</p>
<p>I'm applying to all UC's. But my dream school is UC Berkeley, (which from my assumption they emphasis math and science). and other schools like UC Davis, UC San Diego, or any college with a strong psychology major :D.</p>
<p>What's the best combo O:?</p>
<p>Math 2, us history, and bio. </p>
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<p>I can’t take math 2 D: i’m not taking pre-cal until senior year. It sucks D:</p>
<p>Literature will kill you. Do something else </p>
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<p>This is just going off of word-of-mouth but I hear that the literature test is brutal.</p>
<p>Yah I heard that from this one other thread. </p>
<p>LOL okay I won’t take lit~</p>
<p>Btw you guys will it be better to pick subject tests from each subject, or subject tests that relates to your major?</p>
<p>The Literature test is a monster. Avoid at all costs.</p>
<p>Also, Math Level 1 may or may not be for you. </p>
<p>(+): Only goes through mid-Algebra 2, most of the questions are easily checkable and do not take long to answer. </p>
<p>(-): The last ten questions are designed to ruin your life. They are so abstract and non-numerical that they typically cannot be checked without extraneous and/or large amounts of work. Extremely hard to get an 800 with a very harsh curve.</p>
<p>My friend says that most colleges don’t care if you take Math Level 1 test. I heard they consider that test middle school. </p>
<p>So I don’t think it’s worth taking the Level 1 test anyways xD</p>
<p><em>Sigh</em> If only I took summer school back then. My counselor was no help. I would’ve been in AP cal by the time senior year starts -__-</p>
<p>And if anyone knows… can someone at least answer this question?</p>
<p>Btw you guys will it be better to pick subject tests from each subject, or subject tests that relates to your major?</p>
<p>That’s the only reason why I posted this to get that question answered, not about the Lit xD^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter if you don’t take tests that pertain to your major. </p>
<p>People change their majors like 4 times in college.</p>
<p>Colleges just want to see your proficiency in subjects. It doesn’t really matter which ones. (unless they specify that they want a math, science, etc.)</p>
<p>Pick those that relate to your major.</p>
<p>^Yes, totally. Because colleges definitely know that no one ever ever ever changes his or her major in college.</p>
<p><em>sarcasm</em> </p>
<p>The only reason you would have to discern in your selection of subject tests would be:</p>
<p>1) the school requires a specific test, e.g. MIT and their Math Subject Test requirement
2) diversity, i.e. you choose one social science, one science, and one math (to showcase your broad skillset) </p>
<p>MOST (note how I say most – look up colleges in which you are interested to see what they say) colleges don’t even care about your major when you’re being looked at for admissions. (Some exceptions would include colleges like JHU, where it’s a different applicant pool for biomedical engineering.)</p>
<p>The first option seems fine to me. You’ve got two sciences, which I think can make up for the lack of a math subject test.</p>
<p>I would think it’s a bit of both: subject tests exist to show off your knowledge of a particular area, but you pick that particular area because you’re interested in further pursuing it. If that makes sense.</p>
<p>Lit is not as bad as everyone is making it out to be. I feel like taking it would show a wider range of skill/knowledge. In the end most schools only ask for 2, so take whichever you feel you were perform better in. FWIW, I got a 730 on Lit without ever opening a prep book or doing any practice, and if you take a practice test or two, it is definitely doable.</p>
<p>You don’t need advanced pre-calc for math 2 btw. All you need is basic knowledge of radians and limits.</p>