<p>So I got my spanish SAT ii....a 530 :(</p>
<p>And I sent it.</p>
<p>Will this break my app? I'm already on a borderline SAT/GPA...........</p>
<p>Why in the world would you send that? I don’t think it will kill you but adcoms will see it. As Dean J said, the adcoms are looking for reasons to accept you, not the opposite.</p>
<p>I sent it for the 5 free ones…my other one wasn’t bad</p>
<p>Latin 740…</p>
<p>AHHHHH.</p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean…I did terrible on mine and I sent everything because they were free and I didn’t want to have to pay. My SAT score was OK, and my GPA will be a 4.489 by the time the semester is over but I’m so incredibly stressed and blown about these subject test scores. :(</p>
<p>Yikes! Glad I totally forgot to send scores straight to UVA from Collegeboard.</p>
<p>SAT II are optional, and your Latin is really good, maybe that will balance things out. I don’t know if your Spanish is actually going to hurt or not.</p>
<p>this is exactly why i NEVER take collegeboards “send them now for free” offer. In the end, its bound to hurt you. There is nothing you can do about it now, except send the Latin scores in and pray that it balances out the spanish score.</p>
<p>Keep things in perspective. A one hour subject test is not going to derail an entire application. If everything else is flawless, and there’s a wonky test score, life will go on.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, everything else on my application isn’t flawless… Sigh… This January is coming down to the wire. Fortunately UVA dosen’t “require” SAT II’s but “strongly reccommends” them. This wording is frightening to say the least.</p>
<p>recommended = mandatory. at least, thats what my counslers said. However, I hate how they don’t say WHICH tests are recommended. I only took chem and ush, 670 and 740 respectively. Anyway as a general rule of thumb, always check the percentile in which you place in for that specific test. If its above 70, i’d send them in.</p>
<p>OP, keep in mind that those are two language tests. You have demonstrated great ability in one of them, and some knowledge of another. I think that says something positive. I’d recommend you take a non language test in January, and send three to colleges. If you do well you’ll demonstrate great ability in one language, good ability in another subject, and show that your working on that second non-native language.</p>
<p>Yeah I have good scores in other SAT II’s</p>
<p>I’m sending Bio E & Bio M, both 730’s and USH which is a 740</p>
<p>“Anyway as a general rule of thumb, always check the percentile in which you place in for that specific test. If its above 70, i’d send them in.”</p>
<p>Errr, I wouldn’t go by that. Some tests are weighted so much that getting a 700 is still in the 50th percentile range, but its still a 700+. I got a 720 in Physics, I was 55th percentile. That doesn’t make a 720 BAD (At least I hope it doesn’t).</p>
<p>After looking at my percentages I’m pretty sure I’m not sending in math ii. I don’t think the adcoms look at the percents as much as the score itself.</p>
<p>The percentiles change for every testing date depending on how well the students do. I doubt they would compare students based on percentile, its too varied. Besides, regardless of percentile, a 670-800 looks good no matter how you look at it.</p>
<p>We do not see percentiles when we read applications.</p>
<p>Spanish w/o listening is a hard test and they know that. The average score for natives is a 720-740. They know that.</p>
<p>I have no idea how I got a 700, I’m lucky as helllll.</p>