<p>Err.. self-explanatory.</p>
<p>I've actually asked college admissions people this, and out of the five I've asked, (Hamilton, RPI, Lafyette, Lehigh, one I'm forgetting right now), they've all said that they honestly want to help you, and if you took more than the required # of SAT IIs, they would take your best and act as though your lower SAT IIs never existed.</p>
<p>I have an SAT II that I'm not proud of (don't ask), so I'm grateful for that answer too.</p>
<p>^really? will it somehow give a bad impression tho? well on one subject i was in the 2 percentile <em>-</em></p>
<p>Wow, that's pretty bad. If you have a spare test date, I would really recommend to move up from the 2nd percentile.</p>
<p>The colleges really mean to consider your best scores. Many say so explicitly on their websites or in their viewbooks. Ask this question at college information sessions </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=389153%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=389153</a> </p>
<p>and see what you are told. And, anyway, if you think about it, how could it be WORSE to actually take a subject test more than what is required, when some other applicant didn't take the test at all?</p>
<p>What if they only recommend taking SAT II's? If you do bad [like 690-700 range] on one of them, do they look at it still?</p>
<p>Yes they look at them, but they will take your highest score into consideration for admissions purposes. It's roughly along the lines of what freshman year means to most schools; they'll look at your grades and such, but it will largely not impact an overall admission</p>