<p>What if you have been to US for 2.5 years? Is it considered a realy intel or "native speaker" -_-</p>
<p>English is not really a hard language, and at our age it does not take that long to learn a new language, so I think you'lll be considered "native".</p>
<p>If you learned it as a foreign language you are not, by definition, a native speaker.</p>
<p>I still think that a distinction between native and non-native speakers is important. As a non-native speaker, you may know English really well, you'd be able to speak without problems, etc. Still, there are words on the SAT section that are just unknown to non-natives. Besides, there is still a difference if your native language has many similarities with English.</p>
<p>That said, I know a guy who got into Stanford/Harvard/Princeton/etc. with a 1350 SAT (old one). He probably didn't rock the CR section, either. He was from Germany, btw.</p>
<p>English is your native language if it's the official language of your country, it has nothing to do with the medium of your school though univ waive your TOEFL language if you studied in an English Medium School.</p>
<p>IMHO anyting equal to or above 2000 is a good score, depeinding on your other ECS and Grades and Recs and ESSAYS that are very important.</p>
<p>I second NannyUnited's opinion. Essays/other stuff is much more important. SATs will hardly break or make it.</p>