<p>does anybody know the international accpetance rate that harvard offers?
Plus if i get good grades at a level would i still need to take your SAT II'S?</p>
<p>No, and yes. It is a universal requirement.</p>
<p>thanks, when is it best to take the test and how hard are biologly, chemistry and physics?</p>
<p>I only took biology, but I didn't find it that hard. They should be much, much easier than A-levels in those subjects.</p>
<p>thats good to know, but if i knew the stuff if i got into a us college what would they do with me becuase isnt SAT II the last exam you take or am i stuid?</p>
<p>Although I do not know the exact international admissions rate at Harvard, I can tell you that it is between 3%-5%, since that is the approximate international acceptance rate at colleges like Stanford, Columbia and Princeton.</p>
<p>Things about A-Levels - some universities, notably Yale, will let you substitute A-Level results for SAT II scores. However (and this is a big however), they require you to have already taken the A-Levels - they won't accept predictions. So, effectively everyone has to take the SAT IIs.</p>
<p>The actual stuff you're required to know at SAT II Biology is roughly the same an AS in Biology, with a few little bits from A2 chucked in there. But the test itself is all multiple choice, so it's far easier than the short essay type questions you get at A-Level.</p>
<p>wow that does so sounds much better than a levels so it wouldnt be that inconvinent to take them after as levels, so would not really need to compromise my actual a level results, correct?</p>
<p>I took my first SAT II subject tests in May of my AS year (so I'd covered nearly all of the information I needed), and then retook them in October 2004 (so just into my A2 year). Seems to work for most UK students...</p>
<p>did you re take to get a better mark, if so should i take them in the october, and did you do any soecial revision for them or just your AS?</p>
<p>I revised for the SAT II Writing, but that doesn't exist anymore (now part of the SAT I), and revised the bits I hadn't studied for Biology. Didn't revise for Literature, the other one I took.</p>
<p>Ironically, my marks were really good except for writing but I re-took all of them...only for Writing to remain the same, and the others to go up. It's not unusual to retake SAT IIs by any means...</p>
<p>what mark did you get for biology? (i don't mean to be rude) and what did you get at a level or AS?</p>
<p><em>English</em> I think nick04 has given some useful advice by recommending that you take your SAT II in May of your AS year. I did not do this and so I had to take them in October which is much more pressure.</p>
<p>I didn't do biology but chemistry instead and I found that the content was very different. There is no organic chemistry, whatsoever, in the SAT II for example. With biology I think there are two exams: Molecular and Ecology. </p>
<p>Also, I assume you will be doing Math IIC as one of your SAT IIs. If you don't do Further Maths then, again, I think you will find the course content very different to A-Level Maths.</p>
<p>where did you find the information from that you needed for chemistry? did you order it from an american website or something?</p>
<p>You can easily buy SAT II test prep books direct from amazon.co.uk, and you can download a practice paper from the College Board website. You might also be interested in the Fulbright EAS, which is a US Government funded organisation based in London, providing free advice to students thinking of studying in the US. They have a very good library that's free to use, and run several College Fairs.</p>
<p>As for me - I gained a 740 for Biology-M (molecular), and am predicted A/B for my A2. The Biology SAT II's are, as inuendo says, available in two forms - there's a "core" set of questions which is the same for both Ecology and Molecular Biology, and 20 or so questions on your chosen topic. From an A-Level standpoint, one isn't really much easier than the other, so it's more which you feel more comfortable with.</p>
<p>As nick04 said, you can buy prep books online, which is what I did. There isn't really a formal syllabus as with A-Levels if that's what you mean.</p>