Does taking a SAT II in your native tongue look BAD?

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<p>Hi, I am a rising senior looking to apply to several LACs, Columbia, and maybe also Oxford. Oxford asks for three SAT IIs, and I was thinking that my third could be Italian, my mother tongue. The other two are Literature and French, so I already have another language in the mix. This might be a good thing though, 'cause I'd be a language major at Oxford. Will taking such an easy road look so terrible that I might as well not bother taking the Italian SAT II? Or will it be good to prove that I have a perfect dominion of my native tongue as well as French and English? Please help me out! </p>

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<p>I don’t think it would hurt if you get an 800. It shows that you have mastery of your own language. I’m not sure how they would weigh it against you though. I took the chinese sat II and did well, but I’m still taking a bunch more sat ii’s since in my opinion, i don’t think it will count as strongly as any other sat ii I take.</p>