SAT Subject Tests for Midd

Colleges and Universities A-Z Middlebury College
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<p>I'm fluent in Chinese and decent in Spanish.</p>

<p>I could take the Chinese w/ Listening SAT II and get close to 800. (800 is 56th percentile) </p>

<p>Or</p>

<p>I could take the Spanish w/ Listening SAT II and get between a 600 and a 700.</p>

<p>(I'm only allowed to take one language test per test date.)</p>

<p>I take Chinese in school right now, but dropped Spanish two years ago.</p>

<p>I know Middlebury's known for its strength in languages, so would it be better for me to submit a subject test with a pretty score in a language I know well, or a not so pretty score in a language I'm learning?</p>

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<p>If you could break (or get really close!) the 700 mark, I would strongly consider Spanish (while putting somewhere in you application that you are already fluent in Chinese).</p>

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<p>Gaginang----can you explain your theory for this? My gut reaction would be just to go for the subject in which you can get the higher score. Does a high score in a language seem less impressive if the person is a native speaker? (and do we know if the OP is a native speaker?)</p>

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<p>Deff take chinese. Take what ever test you will do BETTER on. Also, why can you only take 1 language satii?</p>

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<p>[Middlebury</a> Dean Says SAT or ACT is ‘Seldom a Deal Breaker’ - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/middlebury/]Middlebury”>Middlebury Dean Says SAT or ACT is 'Seldom a Deal Breaker' - The New York Times)</p>

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<p>Listening tests are only offered in November. :frowning: I had planned on taking Chinese listening and Spanish w/o listening, but November is the one time of the year Spanish w/o isn’t offered! Had I known this, I would’ve taken it in June. The curve for Chinese is also pretty brutal. If I get one question wrong it goes down to a 750 or something. Not to say that a 750 is anything to cry over, but it isss less than 50th percentile… I thought Spanish might make me more interesting, because I went and tried something new instead of just sticking to Chinese…I don’t know what to do!!! And thanks for the article Modadunn!</p>

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<p>You don’t even need SAT2s if you have got excellent SAT1s or ACT…I would take whatever I would score highest in…</p>

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<p>I would assume that being relatively proficient in two languages would be more impressive than one. And yes (or at least what I’ve heard up to now), it’s less impressive to have a native language tested rather than another.</p>

<p>On another front, I was suggesting at the 700+ that the OP consider the Spanish SAT II because the percentiles also differ quite a bit at the level (to hopefully represent the applicant in an even better light).</p>

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<p>Points noted. I just wanted to thank you guys for your responses. c:</p>