How Many SAT II's do Top Colleges Want?

Test Preparation
1

<p>Is two enough?</p>

2

<p>nope 3......</p>

3

<p>Are you sure? Anyone else want to comment?</p>

4

<p>trinya is correct. Most, if you're talking about Ivies especially, recommend three.</p>

5

<p>Two because they will consider the writing portion of the SAT Reasoning Test as a SAT II.</p>

6

<p>play it safe and take 3 if you are applying to TOP colleges. but most colleges only require 2 now.</p>

7

<p>some are counting the SAT writing as an SATII, some not. Harvard and Yale still require 3 SATIIs, so play it safe and take three.</p>

8

<p>Well, take a gander at your college: <a href="http://www.compassprep.com/admissions_req_subjects.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.compassprep.com/admissions_req_subjects.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

9

<p>I'd say with 13 or 14 you would be safe for most colleges. Ivys are going to start requiring Modern Hebrew and Korean with Listening next year, so you probably should take those. Personally, I took all except Japanese with Listening just to be safe.</p>

<p>;)</p>

<p>(Actual answer: varies from college to college. You're safe everywhere with 3.)</p>

10

<p>check the web site if you are so smart.</p>

11

<p>Before the new SAT's, 3 was the right number: one writing, one math (either IC or IIC), then one science or humanities (like history, literature)</p>

<p>I'm not sure how the new SAT works (like whether writing and Math IC is built into it), but basically that's the combination you should have.</p>

12

<p>The best thing to do is to check the colleges' websites. Colleges may differ in the SAT II requirements. For example, if you took the new SAT I, then you only have to take two SAT II's for UPENN and Brown. Harvard, on the other hand, requires three SAT II regardless of the new SAT I.</p>