<p>D/D goes to a high school that doesn't offer AP classes until junior and senior year, so when colleges are looking at her application, she will only have 3 AP exam scores to show (APWH, APUSH, AP-some kind of English). </p>
<p>If she takes SAT-II exams in her other subjects (eg Bio, Math, Spanish), will that compensate partly for not having AP scores in those subjects. Or would it be a smarter strategy to just take the SAT-II exams in the same subjects as her AP classes, maximize her chances of getting high scores, and be done with it. </p>
<p>Or should she do all of the above? Would it be crazy to take something like 6 SAT-II exams by senior year? Assuming she scores relatively high (700-800) in them, will that help at all or will the colleges simply take the 2-3 highest scores and discard the rest?</p>
<p>Don't worry about only having 3 APs after junior year. My d's high school also offers AP only for junior & senior years, and a lot of kids only have 1 AP after junior year, yet still have terrific admissions results.</p>
<p>Also, the scores on the AP tests don't matter as much as the fact that she took the courses - AP scores are self-reported while SAT II scores need to be sent officially.</p>
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Yes, that's what they'll do.</p>
<p>I think she should just take the SAT II's in the AP subjects and be done with it.</p>
<p>So if it is really so pointless to take >3 SAT-IIs why do I see many C.C'ers with five or sometimes even more SAT-IIs, even when they have mostly 800's and some 750+ scores?</p>
<p>I really don't know why they do it. All schools that require SAT II's say they will take the top 2 or 3 (if required) scores. </p>
<p>I am willing to bet that an administrative person or student copies the GPA and test scores onto a cover sheet and the admissions officers don't bother to look at the actual score report.</p>