<p>Hello, I am fluent in French, I was wondering if taking the SAT II in french is worth it? I mean would the colleges not take into account my score as much because they'd know I fluent in the language?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>As long as French isn't your mother tongue, I think you should be fine. </p>
<p>I took French too, but since I attend a French school, I found it wise to take 4 SAT IIs just to be on the safe side. </p>
<p>Hope that helps! (Btw, where are you from?)</p>
<p>Oh, and I think it also depends where you're applying. I think a lot of colleges won't mind if you take a test in your native language anyways.</p>
<p>French is technically I think my mother tongue. I lived there for 12 years and I was born there. But I have only been practicing it recently properly because I am also taking AS French.</p>
<p>Don't take it if you want to apply to the top colleges. For instance, Harvard does not allow it: <a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/faq/international/test/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/faq/international/test/index.html</a></p>
<p>getting a perfect score :) on the SATII formalizes your "knowledge"
profile from a college perspective even if you are a native speaker....</p>
<p>........that said a perfect score in SATII French equates
per the last CollegeBoard data to 92 percentile and
SATII W/listening to 93 percentile so a native speaker
who might not have a perfect score may potentially be
viewed less favorably.....?</p>
<p>nyjunior: You're right that Harvard doesn't allow it (hence the 4th subject test). Princeton, on the other hand, encourages students to take ANY SAT they will do well in.</p>
<p>Okey Dokey.</p>
<p>thanks nyjunior for pointing that out to me. I've been on that page before and I had completely missed it and Harvard is my first choice. But now I don't know what to do. Even if other colleges still accept a subj in your own native language isn't, what subject am I going to take?????</p>
<p>At the moment my option was going to be definitely Bio, Maths(IIC possibly) and French. I thought about doing chemistry, but I looked at the paper on the Blue Book and I got completely terrified. Maybe I ought to redo it and think about this. But still even then Ill be doing 2 sciences and maths, isn't that too similar? and not showing any 'well-rounddesnes'[ well you know what I mean?</p>
<p>can anyone help me?</p>
<p>Well, what do you plan on majoring?</p>
<p>I plan on majoring medicine, and do a pre-med or similar at Undergrad. Level.</p>