<p>So im starting to sign up for my subject tests and all the schools im applying to - Brown, williams, wesleyan, mcgill, middlebury only require two subject tests</p>
<p>so do you guys reccomend i just do the minimum of two
im a textbook humanities student and was planning on just doing lit + ush
i figured as long as i got 750+ in both that wuld be enough</p>
<p>Generally meeting the minimum requirement does not get one into a select university.</p>
<p>according to many ppl in the CC community subject tests are not as important as other things
as long as i get close to an 800 in things im good at, why not just do 2?</p>
<p>2 is fine if that's what's required, even with selective schools. I agree that your time could be better spent on other activities rather than studying for and taking several Subject tests. The only thing I'd add is that even though you're a "humanities person", it doesn't hurt and might help to take a math/science subject test if you can do well in one. I know my D was a "science person", but she took the US History Subject test since she was taking the AP test and it didn't require additional study. I tend to think (purely speculation, no data involved ;)) that it helps for selective schools to show competence across the board. Again, it's not something I'd recommend if you have to spend a lot of study time on it, but if you're taking precalc, you could take the Math2, or if taking a science AP, you could take that Subject test.</p>
<p>ill be applying to brown so they reccomend 3 so i guess ill be taking a third humanity probably world history</p>
<p>Yes, if they recommend 3, then you should take 3 to give yourself the best shot possible.</p>
<p>How are your PSAT, SAT or ACT scores looking? If they tend to be a bit or a lot lopsided, taking a Subject Test in the area that has the lower score may help counter the lopsidedness. </p>
<p>My S is a math/science guy. He bagged the SAT II Math 2 at 800 after his sophomore year. He takes his SAT next month, but the PSAT and practice SAT indicate somewhat lower scores on the CR. His planned counter is: nailing down 5s in AP English Language and APUSH in May; taking SAT II in Physics and US History in June; getting the AP English Language teacher, who adores him, to write an awsome LOR; spending quite a bit of time on his admissions essays, which will be edited by his aunt, the attorney.</p>
<p>sat= 2240
math 680...i really need to fix that
reading 770
writing 790...really want 800 </p>
<p>i was going to do lit, us history and world history but do u think i should take math 2 then></p>
<p>that sounds like an amazing plan FINDAPLACE..i m awful in math in science (straight A-/B+ student in just honors classes) humanities is really where i shine so my application will be heavy humanitiyies
LOR from ap micro econ and ap lit teachers, essays talking about humanity things ,etc</p>
<p>Those scores are not too different from my kid's, and he got into a similarly selective school. His math subsection score was a 680, also. He is also a humanities guy, but he took the Math2 test, and didn't do too badly on it. At least he got very comfortably above 700 on it. I think, even though his score wasn't that high on the percentile meter, it looks better to have an above-700 score in math to mitigate the SAT I math subsection score. Plus he got great grades in his math classes through dint of hard work, not natural prediliction.</p>
<p>I think it can help, like FindAPlace said, to find ways to balance out your overall record. My kid had his chem teacher write one of his letters of rec, even though he isn't pursuing science now that he's in college. It's just a balance thing.</p>
<p>But I don't think that math subsection score will hurt you too badly. You have a great cumulative score. In your app you just want to highlight your strengths, and where possible mitigate the weaker elements. Taking the Math2 test could be a good idea. Besides, starting next year, you don't have to send the result if you don't like it.</p>
<p>The only school I know of that requires 3 is Georgetown (found out in the nick of time)</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown only schools that require while some others prefer 3 like Brown, JHU and Northwestern.</p>
<p>I believe Pomona wants three.</p>
<p>You should take 3, just so you cover all of your bases.</p>
<p>I would suggest taking previously used Literature tests for practice. The scale tough and some folks approach 800 on Reading and Writing and stub their toes on Lit.</p>