<p>I did all my tests last month, and so far the scores look pretty decent. Nothing spectacular, but I'm happy with them.</p>
<p>Now, I'm a Canadian who wants to apply to the Wharton School of business at Penn, among other universities in the USA. I notice that UPenn "recommends" that you do the Math II SAT before you apply. I would love to do it, however in Canada our highschool curriculum operates differently than in the USA, and we won't be covering the Math II content until late into grade 12, which is too late to do the test. SO unfortunately, I won't be able to do the Math II SAT. Does anybody know whether or not I even stand a chance of getting accepted without this "recommendation"? Do any people at Penn know people who got accepted into Wharton without Math II? </p>
<p>Personally, I don’t know anyone that hasn’t taken SAT II Math but has gotten into Wharton. When the website says that they “recommend” you to take it, it usually means that you need to take it. Self-study the content or get a tutor!</p>
<p>Get a review book and study the content. There should be nothing in there too difficult that you won’t be able to handle. It goes up to basic trig and precalculus. You could take it during October of your senior year or even November/December if applying RD</p>
<p>Have you looked at a practice book? It seems odd you wouldn’t cover that material until 12th grade, especially if you are taking calculus. Most of the top math students in my high school would have been able to take it by the end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>@poeme It is true that the content covered in SAT II math is the same as Canadian grade 12 math. However, top math students in Canada usually complete the math curriculum faster via summer school, online courses, or honour classes (if available).</p>
<p>@HvePassion, if you haven’t looked at a practice test though, you should. There’s always a chance that you may have seen some of it before and can teach yourself the parts that you haven’t. Are you taking calculus? Because I believe that much of the material when I took it was a prereq for calculus, I mean you should have covered at least all the stuff on functions and geometry by now. Those two topics are most of the test. The statistics, matrices and number topics shouldn’t be hard to learn and they are less than a quarter of the test.</p>
<p>Like what others have said already, an elite school like Penn won’t simply buy that you couldn’t take the SAT II in Math if they were offered. Especially if it seems like other students are able to. Learn the material this summer. Practice books are fantastic for Math 2. How much math do you know so far? Through Algebra 2? It’s also not so good that you won’t have a calc background going into Wharton, since that’s basically expected.