<p>like, if I have an English paper that’s been assigned to me for a month but I haven’t started and then I get sick and take painkillers and can’t concentrate well days before it’s due my teacher isn’t going to cut me any slack but if my parents die 2 days b4 she’ll definetely cut me some slack.</p>
<p>Also, 570-640 score are actually above average, it’s not like you got 400’s and you couldn;t function.</p>
<p>the difference between a 570-640 and a 700 in ushist is like 15 questions wrong.</p>
<p>to get a 570-640 you probably got maybe 65 percent of the questions right.</p>
<p>of you were well enough to get 60 questions right, you were well enough to get 85.</p>
<p>it’s not like math level 2 where it’s easy to make careless errors, it’s us hist where you either know it or you don’t.</p>
<p>I’m just saying that admissions officers will roll their eyes and it’s not worth telling; it will just make you look like a whiner.</p>
<p>Putrid, I wanted to take the SAT IIs November of my senior year so that I could have as much Spanish instruction as possible when I took the listening test when it’s offered once a year. If you want to call that procrastination, then go ahead. I admit that I could have taken the other SAT IIs earlier, but my guidance counselor recommended that I just take them when I took the Spanish w/ Listening.</p>
<p>Also Putrid, it’s not like you can start on your SAT IIs earlier in case something comes up. In the case of a paper you’ve had for a month, my teachers wouldn’t cut you slack because your parents died two days before it was due–you had an entire month to work on it. However, if you wanted to travel to a university to use a resource that they had in their library and was only open to the public for a weekend, and your parent died that Friday, then they would. My point is is that I needed to take them in November to take the listening test and I couldn’t “start on it early.”</p>
<p>that’s still your fault for procrastinating.</p>
<p>Actually that analogy with the English teacher wouldn’t work because we have different teachers but w/e.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that if you were well enough to get 60 questions right on ushist, you were well enough to get 75 questions right. It’s just pure memorizatiion, you know it or you don’t. </p>
<p>I was really sick and on meds when I took my sat 2’s both timesand that definetely caused my scores to drop but that’s life I’m not going to whine about it to admissions officers.</p>
<p>Also, you do realize that your act score is really good and that almost all colleges (xept harvard, georgetown, etc.) allow the act to be taken in place of the sat 1 and sat 2.</p>
<p>if ur ed school is like that then it doesn’t really matter tht ur sat 2s are low cuz ur act is really good and u can sign up to take the sat 2s again this december 6th, ud have to do standby tho but nearly all standby’s make it if they arrive early</p>
<p>I suppose you could leave an email or have your counselor call and leave it at that. I don’t think a decision would be made based off your subject tests as your transcript is most important and you have competitive SAT I/ACT scores, and seem like an overall competitive applicant. Whatever the decision is, it won’t be because of your SAT IIs. Good luck!</p>
<p>Chinny, that’s exactly what I plan(ned) on doing and how I thought of it. Subject tests are mainly used for placement, right? So what if I have to take the college’s placement test at orientation or <em>gasp</em> not place out of a class?</p>
<p>did the car crash result in a concussion or something else that would actually mentally prevent you from doing well, or did your physical therapy merely interfere with your study time?
If you had a concussion, this is a valid excuse. If not, you should not try to explain because you will sound like a whiner. The adcoms will see that your sat II scores aren’t in sync with the rest of your application and will assume you had a bad day for whatever reason.</p>