<p>At my S's high school, an extra course was offered to Honors Chem students to prepare for the SAT II in Chem. It was recommended that students NOT take the Chem SAT II without the extra prep class (which met on a series of Saturdays and cost something like $100, for which, knowing the high school, I expect anyone who needed financial assistance probably received it). My son took the test as a Sophomore (after doing Honors Chem and the extra prep class) and got a grade between 750 and 800. So if you're contemplating the Chem SAT II after taking Honors Chem, it might be a good idea to look for extra prep, hopefully provided by your high school, which should know the limitations of its honors chem class.</p>
<p>With regard to schools requiring 3 SAT II's: in the past, many of these colleges wanted one of the 3 required SAT II's to be the English writing SAT II. I'm wondering whether anyone knows if some of these schools might scale back their SAT II requirements from 3 to 2 (a la MIT), now that the SAT I includes a writing test. I have noticed in the process of checking out the websites for such colleges that most of these schools list SAT II requirements only for '05/'06. Does anyone on CC have inside knowledge about the likely trends for '06/'07 SAT II requirements?</p>