<p>I was wondering how most schools, especially upper tier schools look at the Spanish SAT II for a non-native speaker. I got a 710, and I've been taking Spanish for the equivilent of 5 years in high school, but I've done two three week study abroad programs. Will my 710 look okay? It doesn't reflect that I am gramatically a really good writer in Spanish, and understand it pretty well. I just sucked on the fill in the paragraph multiple choice questions and should have taken it with listening, but had to take the SAT instead. Also, my Spanish teacher last year is doing one of my recs. Basically his class is the 4.0 killer. I easily got an A and was one of the top three people out of 120+ students. I just don't want a 710 to make adcoms doubt some stuff or wonder why I didn't score 750+.</p>
<p>If your non-native I wouldn't exactly freak out. The fact that you broke a 700 and had to deal with the harsh percentiles dished out by takers who use spanish as their primary language is very respectible. My friend who just moved to the US from the dominican did no prepping and scored a 790. I guess thats just the way the cookie crumbles.</p>
<p>I think that a 710 is a VERY respectable score, MANY native speakers take the test, and not too many non-native speakers manage to break 700. At my scool, nobody did, with a decent number ~10 taking it.</p>
<p>That's good to hear. My two really good friends did really well on it. One has been taking Spanish for the same duration as me, but she has done one more study abroad than I have, so she's been ahead of me for a while. She scored 790 and is taking 300 level Spanish Literature classes at Reed College. I hope her Spanish really helps her get into her school choices (mostly all girls schools). My other friend, who hasn't studied abroad scored a 710, but a 770 on the listening test. I'm jealous!</p>
<p>I did poorly on chem and math tests and SAT I...I was kinda depressed but then I saw my spanish 800 and it made me really happy.
I'm not a native speaker...well, I live in eastern europe:) there is no such subject as spanish in our school...mandatory foreign languages are english, russian (7 years), and either french or german (5 years)...so...spanish has been my main EC for some years now. hopefully colleges will see my dedication and will be impressed...cuz yeah..my other scores are pretty awful..</p>
<p>That's an excellent score--710 is great. IF you scored above 700, you'll get a 5 on the language AP exam. I for one got a 5 on the language exam, got a 790 on the SAT2. A friend got a 690 on the SAT2 but also 5'ed. So I recommend taking the AP Language to dispel any AdCom doubts.</p>
<p>I'm in IB, so I'm taking the IB HL test. The colleges won't see it during admission decisions, though. I'm expecting a 6 or a 7, but we don't do predicted scores at my school (that I know of).</p>
<p>im a native speaker...i got an 800 and laughed at all the white *****es sitting around me having a hard time. im just kidding. but anyways, if you are not a native speaker, it is full of reading comprehension pasages that range from easy to hard. mine had a don quixote pasage, which is hard to understand if you are not a native speaker and dont speak castelian spanish like me. it is a hard exam for the non native, just knowing spanglish doesnt help like alot of mexicans speak. there is verb conjugation, gramar error identification, inapporpiate use of pronouns...specific stuff</p>
<p>The test isn't bad besides the fill in the blank paragraphs. I just can't do those. The grammar is easy (for me) as my school really does a great job of instilling grammar. I shoulda taken the listening so I wouldn't have had as many fill in the blank paragraphs, but I had to take the SAT.</p>
<p>i'm sure that the colleges will know that even a score in the 700s has a "low" percentile because of the many native speakers who take the test and easily get a perfect score. It is like that for ALL the foreign language SAT II's...I'm in the same situation as the OP...</p>
<p>UR trips abroad should emphasize UR speaking skills and the recommendation from your Spanish teacher should also support UR skills. Especially if he mentions how few people get A's in UR class. It also might be helpful if other kids in Spanish at UR school, who've had that teacher, are applying to the same schools. If they are strong canidates but still got B's in his class than it would emphasize how hard it it to get A's in his class.</p>
<p>You get an hour to finish the test … I flew through it in about 20 minutes and got an 800. It is a lot easier than the AP Exam, which I have not gotten my scores from yet. It is all easy grammar and reading comprehension … so I cannot see how anything above a 700 is rare.</p>
@bio_freak Let me explain to you why a native speaker of non-English might take a SAT Subject test in THAT non-English language. Let’s say you lived in THAT country and emigrated to the US. There is no way to demonstrate that you are really good in THAT language unless you take some test. To me, it looks very impressive to show that you are fluent in another language as well as in English, but you have to show this somehow, so you take the SAT Subject test. Whether you studied THAT language as a non-native or whether you learned THAT language by living in the country, additional language skill is a big asset IMO and you should show that. Now, the problem is if you are a native speaker of a particular language and you don’t do well in the test, then it might not look good.
is ther a lot of those</p>