<p>I am of Chinese descent and am wondering how good of an idea it would be to take the Chinese Subject tests... I am going to take Spanish and Math2 already and wonder if its worth it to take the chinese one. I am fairly well off for mandarin, but i have heard that unless i can guarantee an 800, schools will not care at all. Like will a 700 range score be of much use to me?</p>
<p>Unless you think you can get a perfect score, I don't recommend you take the Chinese SATii. If you miss even just one question, because the scaling is so disproportionate, you'd be looking at a pretty low score. General rule of thumb is that you want between 750 and 800.</p>
<p>i def agree with Socaridas
also, chinese SATII for chinese people are considered "the easy way out" by some colleges and i've heard some don't really count it</p>
<p>^ If you're applying to Harvard, they don't even want it.</p>
<p>I don't get that. No matter the circumstance, Chinese-Americans still learned two languages well. Having a high Writing SAT (or English SAT II) score and a high Chinese SAT II should mean something.</p>
<p>You know what's especially backwards.</p>
<p>Colleges don't respect, scorn on really Chinese-American students taking the SAT and scoring high on it, on the basis that they speak at it home from an early age.</p>
<p>YET on the flip side they encourage, and reward hispanic students taking the Spanish SAT II, which is curve markedly better on the basis that many hispanic students are "heritage students", that is they speak but they are unable to read or write. This inability to read or write (illiteracy if I could have my way, but the pundits would scream at me for being racially intolerant) extends itself into the english language the language that these so called heritage students learn IN SCHOOL in additition to spanish which they often use to fulfill their foreign language requirement, which is complete ********. I mean i don't mind them taking spanish if they want to learn more about their culture or just want the easy way out. but this striking double standard disgusts me.</p>
<p>Affirmative action in this nation has gotten way out of hand. And I won't stand for it.</p>
<p>Sun for America 2048.</p>
<p>I agree. 8 out of the top 15 students in my school are up there because they have the advantage of taking AP Spanish Comp and AP Spanish Lit as a freshmen and sophomore, while the other people have to wait until Junior year until they can start taking AP classes.</p>
<p>I mean I agree with most of you, but if you score really high it can't hurt you, only help. A college isn't going to penalize you for being chinese and you're not even obligated to tell them your ethnicity (but they could probably figure out from last name). </p>
<p>Rutiene: I completely agree with you, people who are bilinguals still had to learn that second language (whether it's chinese, english, spanish, w/e). So why isn't fair that they use the extra language that they had learned and benefit from it? I mean I don't see collegeboard making a big fuss about how it's unfair for foreign students to take the english portion of the sat ~.~</p>
<p>This is just my 2cents.</p>
<p>Well, I'm Chinese too, but the test should be ridiculously easy for you, especially if you've formally learned Chinese, which most American Born Chinese kids usually do (I think), except for ME. That's why I'm not taking it hahahaha. </p>
<p>Oh and the percentile for scoring 800 is 70 something, which means a lot of people get 800 on it, cause everyone who takes it is Chinese.</p>
<p>If i were to take SAT spanish and Chinese, and do well, wouldnt it look good that i am trilingual? Or is it still a bad decision?</p>
<p>If you feel you can do well, then take the test. Of course, if you really are applying to a top tier school, then you might want to takea science or something to round it out a bit. And I doubt that even Hispanic students could get HYP's attention by taking a Spanish SAT II.</p>
<p>祝你好運!</p>
<p>Hispanic students don't need any SATII to catch HYP 's attention.</p>
<p>All they have to do is check a few boxes on the CommonApp and write a sob story or to on how hard it is to grow up "brown", on the supplement.</p>
<p>That or be poor enough to qualify for Questbridge.</p>
<p>While my remarks are not intended to be offensive, I realize that inevitably some are. To all those who are offended, I offer my apologies, but I must remind them that if they are offended by remarks they should be offended even more by the top colleges who think that under represented minorities (hispanics and native americans especially) need an extra boost, because they are some how incapable of achieving on their own. Such attitudes are not only deragatory but destructive for any positive and real social mobility for members of that race, and for the race as a whole.</p>