<p>If a college does not require or "recommend" that applicants submit SAT IIs, will they still look at them if they're on the score report with the SATI? </p>
<p>Like let's say I have a good SAT score but my SAT II scores are bad/horrible (590,650,660) at schools like the above^ will this affect my chances at all?</p>
<p>Having SATIIs is better than not having them. It may behoove you to retake you SATIIs because colleges only care about the highest score.</p>
<p>Wait.. so having really bad SAT II scores like 590, 650, etc. is better than not having them at all?</p>
<p>Hm.. Some universities do require SAT II scores but if it your university doesn't, I don't think it'll kill you to write it down. Putting in the SAT II scores might actually give you a little edge. What Universities look for are students who are over achievers and unique in their own way. I bet thousands of applicants will submit without the SAT II scores simply because they didn't have to and it wasn't required. Writing down the extra set of scores might show that you have taken these exams, which may show that you have applied to other univerisities requires SAT II scores. Showing that you have applied to other places will make them want you more. That is just what I think though. GIve yourself a little boost. If they dont require a SAT II score, it shouldn't HURT you to put it in. You've just topped their minimum requirement which is a GOOD sign.</p>
<p>My SATII situation is that of the 10 schools i decide dupon applying to, 9 of them require onyl 2 SATII's which i will have, but one( Princeton ) requires three. Is it worth taking a third just for this one school? and if so which should i take ( i have Math IIC-790 and Chem which im taking in November and if necesary december) my focus btw is engineering.</p>
<p>^ A social science or language. They do love to see variety.</p>
<p>It's Princeton. Of course it's worth it!</p>
<p>As for the OP's question... I don't understand why some people don't just ask the admissions officers themselves. How do we know what they want?</p>
<p>The only danger to having SAT II score which really can't be avoided whether listed or not since it will appear on the official score report is that the school will immediately recognize that you are obviously applying to generally competitive colleges and that whether or not this is true they will think that the said applicant perceives them as a safety and might reject them to protect their yield, so...</p>
<p>what schools weight the SAT 2s more than the SAT?</p>
<p>I would look at all scores reported if I were an adcomm. Can't really say if real ones act like this, though :)</p>
<p>If your SAT II scores aren't in the usual range for those accepted to the colleges you are looking at, you might consider taking the ACT and using that. Only Harvey Mudd doesn't accept the ACT, and at lots of places the test acts as a substitute for both the SAT I and II.</p>
<p>Some people do better on the ACT than on the SAT (the reverse is true as well). You won't hurt yourself by trying. If you score the same or better, you can send that rather than the SAT. If you score worse, just don't report it.</p>
<p>If your school reports test scores on what it sends to colleges, of course, you will have to either not have test scores sent to your school or try to get them omitted from your record and have it show the testing you want.</p>
<p>My daughter had some lackluster SAT II scores (long story omitted). But she preferred the format of the ACT to the SAT I to begin with and performed much better on it in practice. So she went with that -- and got into three very selective schools (one an Ivy that she is currently attending). I have my doubts she would have done as well if she had chosen to submit the SAT II scores simply to show she took the tests. I have no way of knowing for sure, of course.</p>
<p>"The only danger to having SAT II score which really can't be avoided whether listed or not since it will appear on the official score report is that the school will immediately recognize that you are obviously applying to generally competitive colleges and that whether or not this is true they will think that the said applicant perceives them as a safety and might reject them to protect their yield, so..."</p>
<p>Hmm if that's so, that's really unfortunate.
Only one of the schools I'm looking at requires SATIIs so if all the other schools (which I like just as much) think I'm using them as safeties it'd be pretty bad. </p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion, DianeR. I think I am going to try the ACT once just to see what happens, but the thing is I'm pretty satisfied with my SATI score as it is and the one school that I'm looking that requires the SATIIs does not allow the ACT in lieu of the SATIIs</p>