<p>I have been wanting to know something for a long time:</p>
<p>How many SAT IIs are TOO many?</p>
<p>Although most schools require 3, I have heard of some people taking as many as ELEVEN. On another thread, I read that taking more than four tells colleges that you are obsessed with test-taking. Is this true? Does anybody know from experience that you should not take more than 3 or 4 or 5 SAT2s?</p>
<p>I am planning on taking Math 2C, US History, Eng Lit, French, Spanish (native language), Physics, and Chem. Possible World History too. Is this actually a bad thing?</p>
<p>Obviously it won't hurt you. But you're definatley taking on an unnecesary workload. Taking 4 SAT 2s in itself impresses colleges. But the more you take, the less time and effort you can put into each one. Its better to have 3 good scores than 7 not so good scores.</p>
<p>Actually I thought they were discouraged to take it. I don't know, but I thought the SAT II Spanish was for non-native speakers to show what they know.</p>
<p>On the collegeboard website it says that only 6 of your SAT IIs will be reported on the score report. Apparently, there just isn't enough room...</p>
<p>Of course collegeboard encourages native speakers to take it...THEY MAKE MONEY off of your taking it. Colleges however see you as being lazy and deceptive.</p>
<p>How do they disregard it if your mom is mexican or Spanish, and you grow up knowing spanish and your dad's last name is brown or jones or whatever, so long as you pick the caucasian/or choose not to tell box for race/ethnicity?
There are kids at my school depending on a foreign language test to fulfill a requirement, who speak that language in their home, but may not have a giveaway last name.</p>
<p>i think you can take as many SAT II's as you want as long as you do well on them, but if you take a lot and get mediocre scores on all of them, it would look like you knew a little about a lot of things as opposed to having mastery in a few subjects. It's not really necessary to take more than 4 though if you are happy with your scores.</p>
<p>"How do they disregard it if your mom is mexican or Spanish, and you grow up knowing spanish and your dad's last name is brown or jones or whatever, so long as you pick the caucasian/or choose not to tell box for race/ethnicity?
There are kids at my school depending on a foreign language test to fulfill a requirement, who speak that language in their home, but may not have a giveaway last name."</p>
<p>the benefits of identifying yourself as a hispanic URM FAR outweigh the benefits of sketchy high sat ii score in the college admissions process. think about what you are saying here.</p>
<p>It is strange to me that taking more tests reflects an obsession. Wouldn't it make sense to show colleges what you know by getting good or very good scores on as many as possible. There are people who take 15 AP tests before graduation, and I personally think that shows great academic strength if they do well on all of them. I don't see why it would be different with SAT IIs. Unless taking six would mean getting a bad score on one or more of them, I would think students would be encouraged to show their wide range of knowledge in a variety of subjects.</p>
<p>Zcchen06: That I do not know, but I assume they would not take the highest. They make it very clear on the phone and on the website that you can no longer give your highest score or pick your scores or anything like that. You should call if you are really curious, I suppose they would take the last six, meaning that if you submitted your answer sheet for Math 2 only an hour and a half earlier than French, they would count French as your sixth and MAth 2 as your fifth. That is only a guess.</p>