<p>I have 2 friends who have taken the korean sat 2 and the chinese ap test and received perfect scores on them... the only thing is, they are native to their respective languages.
My question is, do colleges even look/care for/about them, even though they received perfect scores?</p>
<p>oh yeah, in the first sentence... when should one use who as opposed to whom.. i always forget.. thanks for reading!</p>
<p>You cannot submit a SAT II score of your native language. Even if you are an American-born Asian, colleges don’t like seeing you submit those scores anyways.</p>
<p>when you sat SAT’s , do AP scores count?</p>
<p>I don’t know if Emory requires SAT IIs, but my friend got in with an 800 in Korean. Her first language was Korean.</p>
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<p>While I tend to agree that it is generally not a good idea to submit SAT IIs in your native language for a required test score (it would be OK as an additional score if you’ve taken other subjects to cover the required number), I’ve never seen a college say you can’t submit one. If there are some, please let us know, that’s good information to have! </p>
<p>There are exceptions though. For instance, some Spanish speakers, while it is their first spoken language, take coursework for grammar and so would have a valid reason for testing. Also, current Japanese-American applicants are likely to be 4th generation and not have been brought up speaking Japanese at home, so taking Japanese and testing is no different from any other student.</p>
<p>^Right. That’s why most colleges don’t let you take the Linguistic SAT II if it was your FIRST language. At least that’s what my brother’s guidance counselor told him (He got a 800 on Korean SAT II). And my brother’s guidance counselor (Whose husband used to be an admissions dude for Georgetown or something) told him that even if it wasn’t his first language, colleges don’t want to see it anyways.</p>
<p>I mean, I’m sure eventually most immigrants will become so assimilated to the “American” society that their native language will not be naturally learned. But as of now, I think most college admission offices perceive otherwise.</p>
<p>It depends, I took both the SAT II and the AP for my native language and nobody told me it was a problem…at the time, my declared major was international business, so it made sense to demonstrate fluency in a language other than English. I did take 3 additional SAT II’s however, so the language was more of a supplement</p>
<p>I highly doubt any college will ASSUME you are fluent in a language simply based on you checking Asian(or anything else) on the form, nor will they penalize you for it(it probably won’t help much, but that’s another story), it’s called discrimination…</p>
<p>It never hurts to demonstrate a skill you have, the difference comes in when you see how it’s weighted.</p>
<p>I’m sure colleges aren’t going to be like “This Chinese kid took the Chinese SAT II, let’s reject him!” But despite that argument, I guess colleges would rather see you take SAT II in something like Physics rather than a language you learned by birth.</p>
<p>But I do agree, it never hurts to take it. It’s a way of showing that you are fluent in such language, even if you don’t submit the score. And like you said, those going for the international fields will probably get a nice boost from it.</p>
<p>To the OP, in the end, I’d say you should take a SAT II test in something else.</p>
<p>Take the SAT II and/or the AP and/or the CLEP exam in whatever languages you learned at home. This way you will have hard evidence that you do indeed have a certain level of language skill. Someday an employer might like to know that you can read and write your home language rather than just speak it conversationally. In addition, your test score will almost certainly allow you to place into an upper-level course in that language once you get to college, if not place out of a language requirement entirely.</p>
<p>Think of it this way, if your mom were a math professor, and she’d been teaching you all kinds of higher math at home since you were a toddler, would you be scared of taking the math SATIIs or any AP exams in math? Heck no! You’d be thinking, “I’m gonna ace Calc AB and Calc BC and those placement exams at my college, and I’m gonna enroll in the highest level math class I can get into.”</p>
<p>According to my guidance counselor, it is not advisable to take a Subject Test in the subject that the admissions committee can clearly tell that is your native language.</p>
<p>I’m from an Asian country.</p>