<p>Will they offer Sat 2 for Veitnamese? Im surprised so many other languages are offered but not Vietnamese ;(! What future languages will be offered? How and where can i find this kind of information?</p>
<p>Um, I dont think they're planning to offer a Vietnamese language test in the near future...</p>
<p>;( How do they choose which language to offer?</p>
<p>I believe CollegeBoard tests languages most commonly available to American high school students. (Spanish, Chinese, Korean, French, Japanese, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Italian, and German are offered.) Romance languages are expected because they have been taught in Western classrooms for centuries, Chinese because its so widely spoken, Japanese and Korean because they are widely taught business languages, and Hebrew because its scriptural (many study it outside of school as well). Of course this is culturally biased; I'd really like to see Arabic added, for example.</p>
<p>@OP:</p>
<p>Maybe this is info is useless to you :), but if Vietnamese happens to be your native language, it wouldn't be considered by many schools, anyway. Many competitive schools don't want to see you take an SAT II in your native language. </p>
<p>Previous posters are right: it depends a lot on what's being taught in schools, I think.</p>
<p>You can find most of this info at the College Board site.</p>
<p>loft629, test takers obviously don't really seem to follow that. You can definitely see that with the Chinese and Korean exams (A perfect 800 for the Chinese exam is the 57th percentile, and a 700 is the 11th percentile. Chinese is too difficult a language for there to NOT be a difference of scores.) </p>
<p>It's kind of annoying. I wonder if colleges would know if you get an 800 for your SAT II whether it's in your native language or not.</p>
<p>Yeah, atrophicwhisper, I've noticed. :( It kind of bums me out, because I assume that a huge number of those kids are taking SAT IIs in their first lg and expecting those scores to count like any other SAT II, and they often don't.</p>
<p>As far as whether colleges know: I expect that it depends quite a bit on the the box you check (for racial/ethnic background) and on your last name. . . which, of course, brings up a whole mess of additional problems with fairness. <em>sigh</em>.</p>
<p>In any case, everybody on these boards: treat the SAT II in your native lg (if not English) as icing on the cake, and not as a test to count toward your minimum 2/3 SAT IIs!</p>
<p>Well, what does taking a test in your native language really prove about your academic record/ your motivation? Nothing, really. All it really proves is that you're Chinese/Korean/insert ethnicity here. </p>
<p>All I know is that if I were an adcom, I would totally think more highly of a nonnative speaker who gets a 670 on the exam than a native speaker who gets an 800. </p>
<p>Honestly, why don't they take another language exam? You still have to take a foreign language while in school, right?</p>
<p>You're right.</p>
<p>At the same time, I sometimes feel like immigrants should get double credit for their SAT I CR scores. :) It is <em>mad</em> hard for internationals to get high CR scores, and sometimes I feel like they should get a little bit of a break elsewhere in the process to make up for it. After all, is it fair to grade a bunch of American kids taking the CR in their native lg against a Chinese student taking the CR in his second lg?</p>
<p>But in any case, the verdict is in: SAT IIs in your native lg are not usually impressive at top schools, so all you internationals, you better figure something else out!</p>
<p>That's why internationals should try to take the ACT. </p>
<p>I think the ACT is a bit more forgiving for internations- you can study for the English section (it's all about grammar and whatnot), the reading section is pretty basic, and the science section is wicked hard even for native speakers!</p>
<p>Personally, I'd be a little more forgiving toward internationals whose first languages aren't English, but I think that those who grew up with both English and a second language (one offered in an SAT language test) are just lucky- their environment essentially gave them the opportunity to do well on the SAT and gave them a free 800 on a subject test.</p>