<p>Hi, I'm a senior from a small public school in Canada.
All the schools I'm going for require two SAT subject tests, except for Harvard.</p>
<p>I'm going for biology at:
Princeton
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Cornell</p>
<p>I took these in Nov:
SAT MATH II: 800
SAT CHEM: 800
SAT BIO M: 750 (82nd percentile)
Additional Info: 5 on both AP biology and Chemistry</p>
<p>Do I need to retake SAT BIO in Jan?</p>
<p>I didn't get to review for bio because I was so busy in Oct/Nov. I completely forgot some things from AP Bio last year even though I got a five.</p>
<p>I will definitely get 800 if I retake it. Is it worth the time/money? If I retake, will colleges interpret this as caring TOO much about scores?</p>
<p>Also, I could probably take Physics and get 800 or Literature and get 750-800.
Should I take them? Do colleges consider extra SAT subject tests?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t retake it, it’s not going to make that big of a difference. If you want to take another, I would take one in history or literature, but since you already have three that are 750 and above I think that it would be better to stay where you are.</p>
<p>Don’t retake. It’d pointless for all of your schools, except for Harvard, since they use only 2 subject test scores and you already have 2 800’s.</p>
<p>so colleges don’t consider extra subject tests AT ALL?
i remember going through the forum a while ago and saw that some people took 4 to 6 different subject tests and they scored well (750+) in all of them. I thought that the reason they took so many was that it helped their application out.</p>
<p>A lot of people take four to six and then just send their best 2 or 3. Then again, some colleges do look at all the subject tests you send. It depends.</p>
<p>Uh…It takes time, it takes money, and it is basically meaningless. None of the colleges except Harvard will even look at another score. Even for Harvard, if you managed to get 800 in Biology-M, the effect on your admission chances is practically zero. Most colleges don’t even differentiate between a 750 and a 800 on SAT Subject tests.</p>
<p>If you want any more advice, contact the schools you are applying to – they’ll give you an honest answer as to how they view those scores and what they do with them. Any other opinion is hearsay and speculation.</p>
<p>NEVER retake anything 750+for ANY school. it’s just A (minor) factor, not THE factor. i would even hesitate to retake a 700+ if you have another score in 750+ range.</p>
<p>to BigIs, I picked colleges that had a good balance of research and undergraduate focus
Dartmouth, being the most “liberal-arts college like” of the iveys, just didn’t feel right for me
Plus, didn’t really want to live in such a small town</p>
<p>Wow. Harvard. I mean like I’ve planned to go apply for the Iveys, but then I realized that I’m not that into the pharmacy thing and such cause I’m more of physics, maths, and engineering, computers, etc. Princeton could qualify for my subjects but then again what are my chances… I look down on myself a lot of the time. Lol. But another drawback was my age, so I don’t know if I can survive in these elite and top schools. So in the end, I didn’t apply for the Iveys.</p>
<p>Back to topic, you don’t have to worry anymore. Do some research and IMPRESS the colleges instead. SATs are just one of the few things universities look at, and even if you get a low score but you do something amazing, you can still get admitted. Besides, your scores are very good already, so why bother? Good luck.</p>
Good luck.</p>