chances? should i take spanish sat II?

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<p>Name: pollocampero6060
Location: Houston, TX
Ethinicity: Hispanic (Peruvian)
Type of School: Home School
Major: Chemical Engineering</p>

<p>GPA: 3.93 UW. I don't have a weighted GPA.</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT: 2310 superscored (740-CR, 770-M, 800-W)</p>

<p>Subject Tests: Math Level II 800, Chemistry 760, </p>

<p>I wanna take Spanish as the third Subject Test, would this be looked upon negatively? I indicated Spanish as my primary language on the Common App, but English as my native language. Any Thoughts?</p>

<p>AP's: AP Calc AB (5), AP Chemistry (5)</p>

<p>Note on Schooling:
I've taken 8 classes through a local community college that counted as dual credit and got all A's on them. I also took three classes through CTY distance education and three through the EPGY Online High School.</p>

<p>I'm currently taking Linear Algebra through CTY this fall.</p>

<p>EC's
Competitive Tennis for 8 years (ranked high nationally and sectionally)
Piano for 10 years
Toastmasters (public speaking group)
Math tutor for elementary school students (200+ hours of volunteering from that)
Assistant Flea Market manager (basically I help my dad run our little family flea market on the weekends)</p>

<p>Summer:
freshman summer: research class at the EPGY OHS Summer Session at Stanford University
sophomore summer I did a tennis camp
junior summer: Johns Hopkins Pre-College Program, took two college classes</p>

<p>Awards (prolly my weak point):
National Merit Commended
Ventures Scholar
National Hispanic Recognition
JETS NEDC final round
1st place at a local community college math tournament</p>

<p>possible hook: URM?</p>

<p>Any advice for the Spanish SAT II thing as well as anything else is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>I can’t see why showing that you speak proper Spanish would hurt you, but it won’t help a whole lot either.</p>

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<p>no harm at all in taking spanish as another SAT 2. My son took spanish as one of his SAT 2’s and he is hispanic. He’s in his 2nd year at Harvard. He took 4 or 5 SAT 2’s. Don’t worry about the fact that you are hispanic, as the previous poster stated there is no harm in speaking a language perfectly. Your other scores are high enough to show that you are a competitive applicant in every respect.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I’m uncomfortable with that being your third. I realize that guitars101’s son is hispanis and submitted his but he had 4 or 5 SAT IIs so the Spanish was not that critical required third. I would be looking for a 3rd that is not, as you put it, “your primary language”. I know I have read elsewhere negative comments about chinese students submitting the chinese sat II, as well as other languages. I advise not. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Even those the score won’t help much, you’ll be in excellent shape chances-wise.</p>

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<p>any other suggestions as to whether I should take SAT II in Spanish? thanks</p>

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<p>I don’t see why you shouldn’t take the Spanish SAT II. I don’t think it’d hurt. You have great stats, great ECs, and are a URM.</p>

<p>I took the Spanish SAT II. It was decently easy and I’m Asian xD</p>

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<p>I really don’t think it would help you. The college admission officers will treat it like taking a standardized test on your native language (which, of course, it is). And that means they will not attach any weight to it. Do the other applicants a favor and don’t contribute to the substantially skewed curve the Spanish SAT Subject Test already suffers. By the way, Harvard doesn’t have a Chemical Engineering Concentration…there’s only one engineering concentration here. It’s called engineering. You may already know this, but just in case…</p>