SAT II Korean Dilemma

Applying to College
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<p>Alright so here is basically my life story. Born in Kwang Ju Korea, stayed there for 1 year, then moved to states for 9 years living in texas and massachusetts. Then I moved back to Korea for 2 years near Seoul, then I moved here to canada and its been about 5 years now.</p>

<p>The question is would taking the SAT II Korean still look stupid for me? I mean I really don't consider myself a native speaker, and I've only lived 3 years of my life in Korea... When I was 1 years old and when I was in gr.4-5. Even my recent immagrint Korean friends think that I am defidently a Canadian-Korean.</p>

<p>Would adcoms take my SAT II Korean score as a joke? Just a note that I haven't really taken any official school transcript Korean classes other than a bit of Korean class at church. Then again my school doesn't offer Korean.</p>

<p>So fundamentally my question is... should I take the SAT II Korean?</p>

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<p>YES. especially if you apply to big universities that get 20,000+ applications, they don't really put an emphasis on whether the test taker is a native speaker for the sat 2 languages... i took the sat 2 korean and i got a 780 and i was considering to not send that score but i talked to the admissions ppl at ucla and they said to send it because it was a good score.</p>

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<p>The other side of the coin is that if you are applying to Ivies or other elite schools, it is in your best interest to take another SAT because the score will a bit discounted</p>

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<p>More importantly, why don't you take a look at the percentile of an 800...if you haven't already. It might help you decide whether whatever your score is actually worth sending, or if it's...too commonplace.</p>

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<p>i say that you take it. for UCs write that score down. but for Ivies, put ur scores for other SATIIs.</p>