I recently took the SAT Spanish test and Spanish happens to be my native language. However, I have taken three years of French in high school and will be taking AP French next year. I took a practice French test and only score about a ~450 therefore I don’t feel I am prepared until I take AP French. Will it look bad if I choose to submit my SAT Spanish Score to colleges next year?
If the college requests 2 Subject Tests and you submit Spanish as one of your 2, yes, it will look bad. If Spanish is one of more than 2 that you are submitting, it’s fine. Several college websites concur. For example, [url=<a href=“https://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/how-would-brown-view-sat-subject-test-my-native-language%5DBrown%5B/url”>https://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/how-would-brown-view-sat-subject-test-my-native-language]Brown[/url] and
[url=<a href=“http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/testing%5DColumbia.%5B/url”>http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/testing]Columbia.[/url]
It probably won’t hurt to submit your Spanish score but colleges will be more impressed with a language score which you studied for. Even if you don’t use your Spanish score for admissions, it may be useful for things like placement/opting out of language requirement once you get to college.