If the college I'm applying to requests 2 subject SATS and I've taken 3, do I choose

Applying to College
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<p>which ones I send, or do I send all three and they automatically take the two highest?
And this college said that I had to send in all my SAT subject tests, but I'm not sure if they mean all the dates I've taken for the 2 required ones, or all 3. ("In addition to either the SAT or ACT, you must also take two SAT Subject Tests. For Columbia College, you may take any two; for Columbia Engineering, you must take any mathematics test and either Physics or Chemistry. Students must submit all SAT Subject Test scores from all test dates.")</p>

<p>I don't want them to take my Chinese subject test as one of the 2 tests, since I'm a native speaker and I've heard that that makes me look bad.</p>

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<p>email the college…</p>

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<p>Send them all in. Taking the SAT for a language that you are a native speaker of does not look bad. That is, unless you received a poor score.</p>

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<p>Columbia requires that you send all tests and they mean all; there is no room for the incorrect interpretation that you are looking for.</p>

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<p>i’m not “looking” for an incorrect interpretation, i’m just wondering…</p>

<p>and do they just look at the 2 highest scores then?</p>

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<p>They do look at the two highest in regards to the two required Subject tests. Though, they probably will consider the third as well since you will be including it.</p>

<p>But, as dignified said, it does not look back for a native speaker to take a subject test in the native language. It looks bad to have a bad score on it, but that’s because it’s a bad score and native language has no bearing.</p>

<p>You should be fine with sending each test date as they require it.</p>

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<p>The dean of admissions for Columbia spoke at my son’s school and he told everyone that they require all scores be sent because they consider Score Choice as a probable source of errors (i.e. people accidentally not including their best scores). They only consider your highest scores.</p>