<p>I'm Korean, and I think Koreans shouldn't take it since it means nothing. The passages are like the diaries of a fifth grader or a textbook for a fifth grader. Another 780-800 might look good, but I think it's not worth it.</p>
<p>Or you could just do a science, math, and history SAT II, and be done w/ it. </p>
<p>Seriously, to the OP, bi7ching isn't gonnay help you, and to everyone else, attacking him is even worse.</p>
<p>To the OP: Don't worry, your 750 will look 1000 times better than a korean's 800. It makes you look diverse, and simply places those scared koreans/chinese etc deeper into the ****ing stereotype they have welded themselves into.</p>
<p>Life ain't fair... may everyone else lose.</p>
<p>How in the world did you get such a high score as a non-Korean? Yea, college admission officers will instantly know that you are a highly qualified student, knowing that you're not Korean (assuming you're not Korean). But I think Korean Americans are also disadvantaged by native Korean students taking the test... I mean, they are almost like non-Korean Americans, except they have been exposed to the language more. But their language proficiency is way below that of native Koreans.</p>
<p>By the way, I'm sorry if this upsets you, but the SAT II Korean test is not so easy even for native Koreans... like me. I took it in November 2003 and surprisingly, there were SEVERAL tricky questions. Both my sister and I got 800's, but my sister missed at least one questions (her percentile was less than mine).</p>
<p>And seriously, TOO MANY NATIVE CHINESE people take the Chinese SAT II. Even if you get an 800 on the Chinese SAT II, your percentile is usually somewhere around 50 --> my friend's case.</p>
<p>So how did you learn Korean so well? and how many schools have Korean classes? I am curious.</p>
<p>it really doesn't count much if u r native korean speaker and score a perfect score on the SAT II? thats not fair, im not native english speaker, but i still have to take SAT..... damn world</p>
<p>I speak spanish, korean, english, and elvish(native).</p>
<p>haha you guys are so dumb... you realize that race has nothing to do with it? bunch of bleeding hearts.</p>
<p>the us is the most heterogenous societies on earth...... so give us a break... @#*^%@(</p>
<p>Race has everything to do with it</p>
<p>Do all of you geniuses shouting "LOL AND AMERICANS TAKE ENGLISH RACIST LOL" realize that the Writing/CR/Ap Lang/Lit tests you for knowledge of specifics (be it grammar, comprehension, etc.), while Foreign Language APs/SAT IIs are meant to test your basic knowledge of the language? There is no comparison in the difficulty of the Spanish SAT II for a native speaker to the Writing for a native English speaker: the Spanish test usually tests fairly basic diaglogue and what it literally means, while Writing tests grammar most people haven't bothered learning. The same goes for all the foreign language tests.</p>
<p>hey i'm korean but i'm adopted so it really doesn't count and i'm twinky-ish</p>
<p>If you're going to have a leg-up on any foreign language exam, chances are you've been exposed to more of that language and less of English. So if you can make up for having less exposure to English by knowing another language, I say more power to you.</p>
<p>People who say that SAt II Korean is unfair because Koreans are taking it...what da hell are you guys smoking. You kidding me. Then we should get rid of all the SAT II languages. You idiots, who cares if Koreans take it. TAKE ANOTHER SAT II language...better yet, dont take a language. Deal with it..koreans are still going to take it. Hey better yet, LETS ALL GET RID OF every SAt dat has to do with english because some people's first language isnt english.</p>
<p>That's the same for me with SATII Chinese. I'm a native Chinese and I see basically no point of me taking the SATII Chinese. Our school is located in Taiwan, and basically 90% of my class goes and take SATII Chinese. I mean, yeah sure it looks good on your transcript with one extra 800 but what is the point? The test is so easy that I actually bursted out laughing at some of the absurd answer choices in the reading passages. I agree with imiracle911 strongly. Now, if a native Chinese DIDN'T get 800, it'd be pure pathetic-ness. So since you basically have 100% confidence that you're going to get 800, is there a point fo taking the test? You take a test to assess how much material you LEARNED...not how much material you already have. On the other hand, you can't restrict native speakers from taking that SATII language though. That will always be a problem.</p>
<p>790 percentile on the SATII Chinese: 23rd HAHAHA.</p>
<p>I understand that the SAT verbal and writing tests the specifics, but there are going to be SOME sort of advantage for people who's from america compare to international students in those section. Lots of students from other country gets low score on the verbal section or on the writing section (but get straight A's in their english class) not because they are not as smart, but because English is their second language. (That's why many asian that I know (including myself, not the CC people who just gets high 700's on every test on no matter what) gets a high math and low english)). Is not always going to be fair.</p>
<p>it's not racist that the collegeboard only offers SATII in Chinese/Korean/Spanish. It's a business decision, even though CB claims to be non-profit. There are far more potential people going to take those exams than Vietnamese or Persian or Russian or... IMO, there should be an SATII Arabic and SATII Persian since the languages of the mid-east are important in geo-political affairs; they are also underserved in teaching at the high school level, when it is much easier to learn a language than when the mind has crystalized.</p>
<p>Native speakers of a language should not take their language SAT.</p>
<p>Collegeboard non-profit? yea right lol
yea, they claim to be non-profit, but they make you pay even when you want to CANCEL YOUR AP EXAM! Now what is up with that?</p>
<p>Anyway, yea I don't think the analogy is appropriate here. First of all, the SAT is originally geared towards American students because it tests students who want to attend colleges and universities in America... mostly Americans. And like somebody mentioned, the level of the verbal section and the writing test is so much advanced than that of the foreign language tests. While it is true that foreign students take advantage of the test of their language, those tests are fundamentally created for students whose first language is English, thus "foreign language."</p>
<p>But I'm still satisfied with my 800 Korean SAT II. (satisfied because I don't suck, not because I am highly qualified...)</p>
<p>"it's not racist that the collegeboard only offers SATII in Chinese/Korean/Spanish."</p>
<p>Collegeboard offers SATII in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.</p>
<p>i think there should be an SAT II Arabic</p>
<p>and i really wish arabic was taught in schools. those arabs say one thing in arabic, and then lie in english. it's VERY important to know.</p>
<p>most top tier colleges start teaching arabic in 2008. :D</p>
<p>over the next half century, a ton of languages are gonna die out and there will only be like ~20 that actually matter.</p>
<p>"Candidates whose native language is not English should not take any of their three SAT II tests in their native language. "</p>
<p>Arabic is cool. Al Humdila. Praise to Allah.</p>