<p>Am I the only person on these boards who is not planning on taking any SAT II's? Yay for the ACT, anyone? Anyone?? (looks around at dead silence. Shrugs, wanders off to room)</p>
<p>Hmm...</p>
<p>Do the colleges to which you're applying require SAT IIs?</p>
<p>The fact that you've decided to not take the SAT IIs isn't as dramatic as you'd think because not all colleges require SAT IIs.</p>
<p>Does that ACT incorporate topics colleges would otherwise need to measure through SAT IIs (I don't know much about the ACT)?</p>
<p>I'm not taking any SAT2's. at first out of laziness. now because nowhere i'm going requires them</p>
<p>The only college that interests me for which not taking the SAT IIs is an issue is Columbia... I'd apply there if they didn't require them. The ACT doesn't really incorperate any SAT II-esque material, no. It's more a fact of geography... where I live, I have to drive about 2 and a half hours to the nearest SAT testing site... yay for Wisconsin... and I really don't have that much dedication to standardized tests.</p>
<p>I think they're dumb. I have to study a lot more to prepare for them then for the sat2</p>
<p>A lot of schools that will take the ACT still require some SAT IIs.</p>
<p>I wasn't planning on taking any standardized tests, but some of the schools I'm considering transferring to stupidly require them for junior transfers, even though we've clearly already finished the first year of college they're supposed to predict performance for. Bleh.</p>
<p>Only the most persnikitty schools require the SAT II's if you submit the ACT. I don't even think persnikitty is a word. But I think we can all hypothesize as to what it would mean if it did exist.</p>
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Only the most persnikitty schools require the SAT II's if you submit the ACT. I don't even think persnikitty is a word. But I think we can all hypothesize as to what it would mean if it did exist.
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<p>Only the schools that realize that the ACT is hardly a substitute for 3 subject tests.</p>
<p>Yes, those ones. The ones high up, way way up in their ivory towers, secluded from the world, basking in their sense of self-worth.</p>
<p>Doing well on the SAT II's basically means: 'I was lucky enough to go to a good high school that taught me what was on these tests. Yay for me.'</p>
<p>or it can mean "Even though I went to a crappy high school, i wasn't lazy enough to neglect them, and had the motivation to study the required material and pimp them"</p>
<p>and by the way, the ivy leagues aren't the only colleges that require SAT IIs. Any decent, self-respecting college that wants some sort of measure of its applicant's abilities in certain subjects will require them.</p>
<p>And what kind of a school do you as in (^) you go to? 10 people in my class at most have taken sat2's. out of 500. we teach for the ap tests, but not for sat2's at all. And plenty of good schools don't require sat2s. I guess you don't think Northwest is a self-respecting school do you</p>
<p>The vast majority of colleges do not require II's and those include Mich, Ill, USC, Wash St. Louis, Emory, UChicago, Northwestern (except for some special programs), NC, GTech, and a number of others that are usually ranked in the top 50. Moreover, most of the colleges that do not require II's will not consider them for admission purposes even if submitted. However, large majority of colleges that do require II's (which is only about 50 colleges in the nation), are high ranked schools in the east or California (although Stanford "recommends" but does not require them). Of the ones that require II's, there are a number that will take the ACT in lieu of both the SAT and SAT II's; examples: Yale, Brown, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Amherst, Tufts, Boston College, Brandeis, Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Vassar, Pomona. Thus, whether you need to take II's is mostly a matter of where you intend to apply.</p>