<p>I'm going to apply to UCBerkeley in the next school year and major in biology there.
But because I decided not to take AP Biology class this year, I'm really worried about whether I should take AP Biology exam this year or next year. If I would take it next year, I would be unable to show my score of the exam in the college admission. Although I already got 800 in Japanese, Math Lv. II and Physics of SAT II, I think I still have to take AP Biology and SAT II Biology. </p>
<p>By the way, if a native Japanese speaker like me takes SAT II Japanese test, does the college regard the score as important as those of other subjects?</p>
<p>Check the admissions requirements of the college. Some don’t require subject tests, and the ones that do are often are looking for something specific. For example, engineering schools want Math and Chem or Physics.
There is no harm in sending the Japanese score, as long as you have also sent scores of tests that meet the college’s requirements.</p>
<p>Thanks for your answer. I decided not to care about biology because I found that I already satisfied Berkeley’s requirement of subject tests.</p>
<p>UCs consider a sufficiently high score on a language subject test as fulfilling the high school foreign language requirement even in the absence of high school foreign language course work. This is presumably used by native or heritage speakers whose ability is already beyond the high school’s offerings.</p>
<p>In general, it is best to have the language test in your native or heritage language as an additional test beyond those required or recommended by the college, as some colleges do not look at such scores as highly as they do other scores.</p>