The weight of subject tests

Test Preparation SAT Subject Test Preparation
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I have taken the SAT subject tests on three seperate ocassions. I live in Puerto Rico and I speak spanish fluently.

First ocasion-
Spanish- 790
Literature- 570 (i only took it for a specific university, which I decided i’m not even going to apply-- i will not use this score for anything)

Second ocassion-
I had a horrible day. I was sick and having panick attacks and it reflected on my scores.
Biology (E)- 450
Spanish- 800
Math 1- 580

Since I was so dissapointed with my scores I decided to take them a last time:
Biology- 780
Math 1- 720
Math 2- 740

Will the previous scores affect my chances at getting into college?
Should I explain why I got a disturbing 450 in Biology?

I have a 3.75 GPA and I got a 33 on the ACT.

I’m looking at University of Michigan and NYU.

(Also please keep in mind averages for Puerto Rico are VERY low)

2

Can you afford NYU?

3

Money for college will hopefully not be an issue in my household @4kidsdad

4

Make sure “No Financial Aid” is checked on your application.

5

Yeah but how does this answer my questions about subject tests? @4kidsdad

6

^Google NYU and found “NYU requires SAT Subject Tests if you’re submitting an SAT score, not an ACT score. If you submit an ACT score with Writing, you do not need SAT subject tests. Typically, your SAT/ACT and GPA are far more heavily weighed than your SAT Subject Tests”

7

As long as the school you are applying to does not require you to submit all testing history (Penn, Cornell, Yale, Stanford, CMU, Georgetown…and a handful of others), then you can select which scores to send. You could send Spanish from 2nd sitting and suppress the other scores and you could send all scores from third sitting.

Just check the score reporting policy of each of the schools you are considering.

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You should send Spanish and biology.