SAT Reasoning or SAT Subject- which is more important in admissions?

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<p>Is the SAT Reasoning Test or the SAT Subject Test(s) more important in UC admissions?</p>

<p>On my Subject Tests, I scored a 720 in U.S. History and a 630 in Biology.</p>

<p>On my Reasoning, I scored a 1910.</p>

<p>However, my GPA is about a 4.4 and I've taken many difficult AP classes. My extracurriculars are as good as my GPA.</p>

<p>My top college choice is UC Berkeley. I want to major in nutritional sciences at the College of Natural Resources.</p>

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<p>Reasoning is more important to my knowledge.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley will put a lot of weight on the SAT Subject Tests. You've seen their online posting about their admission formula, haven't you?</p>

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<p>Yea, Reasoning is more important in some cases and in some cases your SAT2s will help more.</p>

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<p>tokenadult, What admissions formula are we talking about?</p>

<p>bump...I'd like to know too.</p>

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<p>Well, when you go on the UC website they have this chance formula thingy you can plug your scores in and you get a number that you can compare to others.</p>

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<p>Link? 10char</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.ucop.edu:8080/eligibilitycalc/begin.jsp?radiobutton=nonCA&nexti.x=33&nexti.y=8&nexti=nexti%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu:8080/eligibilitycalc/begin.jsp?radiobutton=nonCA&nexti.x=33&nexti.y=8&nexti=nexti&lt;/a> nm</p>

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<p>i'll try and find it.</p>

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<p>University</a> of California - Admissions</p>

<p>click on check your eligibility</p>

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<p>4 times out of 5 reasoning is more important (I'm just guestimating)
not sure tho for UC. I do know that test scores in general are most importatn to them. try to get all your scores up</p>

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<p>i'd like to know too- bump</p>

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4 times out of 5 reasoning is more important (I'm just guestimating)

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The SAT I is more helpful, in my opinion, because it's a general test that everyone takes. </p>

<p>SAT IIs provide options, and an applicant has a much better shot at matching his skills to an exam. A native Chinese speaker would be foolish not to take the SAT II Chinese exam, for example. This skews the results/scales. </p>

<p>The UCs seem to consider them equal.</p>

<p>Convert your highest scores in critical reading, math and writing from a single sitting and your two highest SAT Subject Tests from different subject areas to equivalent UC Scores (see the translation table below). Then add all five UC Scores to produce your UC Score Total. Example: critical reading + math + writing + Subject Test 1 + Subject Test 2) = UC Score Total.</p>

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<p>warbler, I'm a native chinese speaker and I never took the chinese (although I'm sure 800 would be easy). none of the chinese friends I have took it either. Thinking about it now, I'm not really sure why we didn't. I guess there's a sentiment of not accentuating your chineseness in front of colleges.</p>

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<p>would that logic apply to spanish too? im a native speaker, and taking the subject test for it just seems like a waste of time to me, but am i wrong?</p>

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<p>One thing SAT Subject Tests can show for native-language speakers is that the language really IS your native language--thus explaining lower scores in English classes or on the critical reading section of the SAT Reasoning Test. It's a good idea to do one more than the bare minimum of SAT Subject Tests if you take a subject test in your native language, but it's still better to know more languages than just English, so it's not harmful to show you know the other language.</p>