<p>I'm really sorry if this question has been answered many times, but I forget if colleges can (or do) look at ALL of your SAT Subject Test scores or if they just look at your top 2 or 3 highest-scored tests or just the 2 or 3 that you want them to see ...</p>
<p>I'd like to know the answer to this question as well - I took an SAT II in the fall of my freshman year...and I didn't really know what I was doing lawl.</p>
<p>just don't get wayy too low and itll be okay</p>
<p>hows this:</p>
<p>freshman year: bioM 620
soph year: chem 680</p>
<p>junior year: bioE770
senior: chem and math2 800</p>
<p>do the "retakes" cancel out the old crappy ones?</p>
<p>i would think so...but why did u take those tests as a fresh/soph lol...i didnt even know about them then</p>
<p>haha i thought that SATs freshman year wouldn't count for colleges and stuff...still stuck in that whole 7th grade Duke TIP mentality i guess.</p>
<p>hopefully adcoms will cut me some slack, considering it was just one month into my high school career lololol.</p>
<p>lol
i took Bio in 9th grade and i got a 800 first time
and soph year i took chem and got an 800
i think MOST ppl take them early -_-</p>
<p>not october of your freshman year :/
anyway whatever, it was a 730 (though one of those crazy FL tests, making it under 50th percentile lol)</p>
<p>yeah a 720 on math II is like 60 percentile</p>
<p>All your scores are reported at once, so colleges -will see- every score you've gotten, though they'll usually ignore the ones that you didn't plan to have factor into your admission decision. Granted, if you have some 200s or 300s stuck in there, that'll be hard for them to ignore..</p>
<p>Whenever you request to have scores reported The Collegeboard reports ALL of the scores in your file, including SATIIs. Colleges usually only look at your best scores and some will even superscore to get your highest possible score, but they do see all of them.</p>
<p>From Collegeboard website:</p>
<p>**Do you report only the best scores?</p>
<p>Your score report is cumulative, meaning it contains your most recent score plus scores from up to six SAT and six Subject Test administrations. Most colleges only look at your highest scores.**</p>
<p>I think the main question here is if the adcoms see them. Just like the whole superscore procedure, if the secretaries are the ones who put together your fact sheet and superscore/put your highest SAT IIs, then adcoms will never even see the SAT II that you didn't do so well on.</p>
<p>Not sure if the OP was asking this specific question.</p>
<p>What are adcoms?? And my real question was if colleges would be able to see ALL of your SAT II's when you sent your college application to that school, not when you just reported them thru the Collegeboard website.</p>
<p>The following is based on numerous testimonies (not official statements which are sucumable to lies) from adcoms and admission-philosophers</p>
<p>They see them all, but as long as you're not majoring in the SAT II Subject you screwed up on (Studying biology w/ a 300 SAT II Bio? Um, no) they will ignore them AS LONG AS you have 3 SAT II's that are both relevant to your interests and high - based on most school's calculators, they take the top three SAT II scores and pllug them in - they ignore the other one's simply because there might have been special circumstances surrounding that test, they reason, if the person was still able to score so high on so many other SAT II's. If the person didnt score so high on other SAT II's, that score, if its one of the highest that person gets, still remains there and lowers the students academic rating.</p>
<p>What if you have 3 relevant subject tests and score 800 in each of them.</p>
<p>Now, if you do another 3 and get 800 in all of them, will that help you or will they think you are an idiot or a loser for taking so many subject tests?</p>
<p>i would go with loser</p>
<p>What do you guys think though: will colleges take note of someone having, say, 5 800s as opposed to 2 800s when only two tests are required? Or will the extra tests be gone with the secretary?</p>
<p>The common app has space for up to 6 subject tests. The first couple of 800's will get you past the secretary but presumably at least someone will see your common app. </p>
<p>The only question is- will you come off as a loser for taking so many tests. Really depends what else is on your app. IMO- if the rest of your app is uninspiring and you have 6 SATII's with 800's in them that would really make you look like someone who needed to get a life. If you come from an unknown or poorly ranked school then the extra SATII's would provide a quality check on your grades.</p>