<p>i'm a foreign senior high school student. I've just decided to go to a university in the US next year. so, may i ask, is it too late to start practicing SAT and SAT2? i mean has anyone done that? Another question, due to that H requires 3 SAT subject tests, can i take both Maths level 1 and level2 so as to be counted 2 tests. I feel unsecured to devote my time to another subject.
I hope to receive some advices from both american and foreign H students. it will be a lot of thanks because im really worried about my future.</p>
<p>I did sat1 and sat2: math 1/2 as a senior :P</p>
<p>I took my SATIIs in June of junior year and my SAT (for the first and last time) the october of senior year.</p>
<p>Taking both Math 1 and Math 2, as two of your three required SAT subject tests, is very unwise. Harvard might explicitly warn against it somewhere online. Even if they don’t, it will put you at a large disadvantage in an already near-impossible pool (international admit rate is 3%).</p>
<p>D took SAT I March of her junior year. It did not suit her and never took it again. The ACT is the score that the colleges must had used in selecting her. It the ACT available in your country? D took it just about cold June of her junior year and then again, almost cold, October senior year. She got a 35.</p>
<p>SAT II, you still have many opportunities to take the exams. Between the SAT I and SAT IIs you still have this June, next october, november, december and January. D took hers separate. She did the Chem last june, she did bio years before, and then did MAth I AND II with the hopes of ONE good score to use. I agree w/ orangutan, I would hesitate at trying to use math I and II as two different tests. Of course reptil, apparently did but it would NOT be my first choice. </p>
<p>As for the question, when did you get serious. D has always been pretty focused, so grades, gpa, and rank were already in good shape. But she did not get serious about HArvard until January of her SENIOR year. She originally applied as a “what the heck the application is easy and they have everything I would want to study”. No everyone prepares years in advance. It is possible for you. Get looking at your June testing opportunities and utilize to your best advantage, over the summer prep for fall tests and begin getting ideas for your essays.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you so much. Members of this website are really helpful. i’m so lucky that came across it through Google. many thanks again. More advice is welcomed.</p>
<p>I would recommend not taking both Math 1 and 2. Decide how strong you are and take whichever Math subject test corresponds to that skill set. Then, if you have an idea whether you will major in math/science/engineering or language/social sciences/humanities, pick your second test based on that.</p>
<p>For highly competitive schools like H, it looks better to take Math 2. Most students are prepared, with some prep, after having taken pre-calc or trigonometry/math analysis, whatever your school is calling it. You don’t have to have taken Calculus to do well on Math 2.</p>
<p>The more prepared students try to get all their testing done junior year, so they can concentrate senior year on college applications (especially the early action/early decisions ones, which H no longer has), classes, and EC activities. The REALLY prepared ones will start working on their college essays the summer betwee junior and senior year.</p>
<p>I did math 1 and 2 as two of my subject tests and I was waitlisted. So it doesn’t make you a reject just because taking those 2 tests :P</p>
<p>Reptil - you are right that they obviously are willing to consider it but I would assume that three more diverse subjects would make a stronger application than two so similar and only one different</p>
<p>BTW, people keep not mentioning that harvard required THREE sat II.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend taking both Math 1 and 2. It’s redundant. Just take Math 2. It’s not difficult but rather fast-paced, at least in my opinion. I don’t know what people did, but I tried to diversify my SAT II (Math 2, Chem, and US History) unless you know you want to go into engineering or some specific fields.</p>
<p>I studied the SAT I for years, but I’m a slow learner. Some of my friends went in with no preparation (I had to remind them about the date) and still got higher scores, so no worries. It’s different for everyone. 
Good luck!</p>