<p>I have taken the SATs and 2 SAT IIs so far, and to my utter amazement, I've done really well on all of them. The problem is that I'm considering schools like Yale and Georgetown, which require another SAT II, and I honestly don't know which one I can take and potentially do well in. I've taken US History (my best subject) and Math Level 2 (my second best subject), but I don't know what else to take. I've considered Literature, but I have virtually no experience in analyzing poetry, and I only got a 720 on SAT I CR, which, while good, has been my lowest score. I'm terrible at science, which rules out any of those, and although I'm fairly good at Spanish, Spanish 4 in my school is kind of a joke, and we did very little actual work, and I would therefore have a lot of catching up to do over the summer.</p>
<p>So, would it be really stupid not to apply to Yale and Georgetown because of the SAT II requirement? </p>
<p>If I take a third SAT II and do badly, will colleges that only require 2 of them still hold the third one against me?</p>
<p>Does the Barron's SAT II Literature book accurately measure one's abilities, or is it like the IIC book, which is overly difficult?</p>
<p>Thanks for any comments...</p>
<p>Could you take the math IC, or do they have to be in different areas?</p>
<p>I have read on CC that colleges do NOT look at SAT 2's beyond the highest 2 (someone recently cited personal experience at Amherst), but this is hard for me to believe.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was sort of wondering if I could take IC... Does anyone know whether this is frowned upon?</p>
<p>I think requiring 3 in spite of the new writing section is sort of stupid, expecially considering colleges are always talking about how SATs don't mean everything in admissions. Cool, then why are you essentially requiring future classes to take ANOTHER standardized test!?!</p>
<p>Okay, forgive me for ranting...</p>
<p>Does anyone have an official list of which schools require each number of tests? So far, I've found that schools that require two are Cornell, Tufts, Amhert, Duke, and Swarthmore, schools that require three are Yale, Georgetwon, and Harvard, and the schools I couldn't find were Brown, Columbia, and Penn, but these are only the schools that I would consider going to and obviously don't include anything outside of the East Coast.</p>
<p>I don't know about Penn, but both Brown and Columbia only require 2 SAT IIs.
So, unless Yale, Georgetown, and Harvard are clearly your first choices, you could consider not applying to those schools since you already have 2 very good scores.
Nevertheless, you might want to consider taking the Literature SAT II, because you don't really have to study for the Lit test and generally the average for the Lit test is lower than the other tests.
Even for Yale, Harvard, and Georgetown, if you get a score that is 700+ you will be fine as long as your other scores are 750+ and your other stats are good.
I don't think that many schools count the Math tests as tests in different areas, and thus the Math IC will not fulfill your requirement of 3 subject tests.</p>
<p>Penn only requires two. I emailed their admissions department.</p>
<p>would you be good at writing? I know I had to take 3, one of which had to be writing.</p>
<p>SAT2 Writing is no longer offered since there is now a writing section in the new SAT.</p>
<p>really? didnt know that</p>