<p>I'm Chinese and I took the Chinese SAT II and score 800 (duhh :P). </p>
<p>Since I'm applying to one or two colleges that require three SAT IIs, I'm planning to submit Math II (800), Chem (740) and Chinese w/ listening.</p>
<p>Will it matter to the college that I'm submitting a test that should obviously gain a perfect score?</p>
<p>Yes. Some places won’t accept a native language SAT II as one of their required ones. I’d suggest taking another one.</p>
<p>Take another test.</p>
<p>Acing your native language test is meaningless.</p>
<p>Colleges will generally accept a language test in your native language, but they won’t be impressed with a high score. Consider that among 2008 college-bound seniors taking the Chinese SAT II, 77% scored 750 or higher—presumably because many or most of them were native speakers taking a test designed to measure the kind of basic proficiency a non-native speaker would acquire in 3+ years of HS study. So if you score anything below 750, you’re at the 23rd percentile or less, i.e., in the bottom quartile of people taking the test. So what does it mean if you score a 750 or higher? Well, probably that you’re a native speaker, that’s all. It’s not going to be seen as a mark of academic accomplishment—though it certainly may be beneficial in the long run to be bilingual. I’d seriously consider taking another test to show what you can do academically, and submit the Chinese score as an extra 4th score.</p>
<p>If you can do a history or literature subject test, go right ahead. I actually took a glimpse of the averages of the different tests and saw that Chinese had the number 763 as its mean.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posters.
Do you take another foreign language at school that you are good enough at to take an SAT II foreign language test?</p>
<p>Also, I get the vibe that you’re a math/science person. If this is your proposed major, then go right ahead. BUT if you’re still undecided or applying to a liberal arts school, I would take a subject test in the humanities (history, lit, etc.) just to show that you’re multi-dimensional.</p>