<p>SAT Subject tests are required for all the schools I want to apply to (the ivies, Amherst, William's College etc...) and I had a few questions about them...</p>
<p>I'm spending my junior year abroad and didn't have the intention of repeating my junior year upon return to the United States and am hoping I will receive credit for all the classes I've taken over here... For my senior year I will be in all AP classes, but, because junior year is so important as far as college applications go, do you think by taking a lot of SAT Subject tests it helps my application by filling the gap of junior year? IF I get perfect 800s on all the tests I take? All other factors being equal like I get straight As, am in the top 10 of the class (out of 450), etc? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Get your testing done, scoring high on the tests will help you out obviously.</p>
<p>Scoring high on subject tests (most of those schools that you are applying to require 2 subject tests), does NOT replace your schedule for your junior year. If you are taking the most rigorous schedule at your school abroad, you will be fine.</p>
<p>Contact some admissions offices of those schools and see what you need to do. Try and get in contact with your GC to see how you should handle this.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response! </p>
<p>Well, I had studied two years of French before coming over here, and am only now becoming fluent… I’m in the equivalent of both 11th and 12th grade French Lit, Physics, Pre-Cal, English language/Culture, History, Geography, Religion, and Art/Philosophy… which was the schedule picked out for me by the director of the school… the first semester it was kind of like I wasn’t there, but of course I feel as though I have enough, or will have enough at the end of the year to get credit in the United States, and will work as hard as I can in this second semester, but there’s only so much I can do being a foreign exchange student (in other words, it’s obviously nothing like how I would work if I were in the United States, but of course i gain a lot by being here that i wouldn’t if i stayed in the US for my junior year.) </p>
<p>While I realize the subject tests don’t replace my junior year, you don’t think that I would need to go back and repeat my junior year? I really don’t want to do that… I was thinking that taking 5 SAT Subject tests, along with looking at my Freshman, Sophomore, Junior grades/credits from abroad, knowledge of French, and Senior fall semester grades would be good? I’m aiming for valedictorian by the way… </p>
<p>but good advice about talking to GCs and admissions officers… the thing is, my GC said they’d never had a student study abroad before so they didn’t really know what to tell me! :(</p>