Urgent!!!!!! Should I cancel my scores???

Test Preparation
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<p>I took SAT Chinese w/Listening this November... I didn't think it was easy... I know Chinese cause my parents speak it and I take a Chinese course, but unfortunately I could never afford a trip to China/Taiwan, so I'm not <em>really</em> a Chinese girl... and that's the problem: comparing to a native speaker, my Chinese is poor. </p>

<p>I<code>ve studied very hard for this test, but... whew, I left 5 questions blank. Five!!! Imagine the rest!!!!! I</code>m expecting a 600- <em>crying</em> =*(((((</p>

<p>Now I<code>m afraid they</code>ll look at my poor Chinese grade and think I<code>m stupid. Should I cancel my score or it</code>s better to leave it there??</p>

<p>(I already have 3 SAT II good grades... the problem is: I<code>d like to apply for Columbia, and I don</code>t know if they request 2 or 4 SAT II:</p>

<p><i>Additional Requirements: If you attend a school that does not give out conventional grades or if you are home-schooled, you must take two additional SAT Subject Tests in addition to all requirements outlined above. </i></p>

<p>I don<code>t study at an American high school. Does it mean that I don</code>t have "conventional" grades??)</p>

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<p>Call them and ask.</p>

<p>And Conventional just means you get a mark in every course. Un-conventional would be an alternate school where your a recovering drug addict and do different courses or something. To be blunt!</p>

<p>600 is fine.</p>

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<p>Hey, thank you! My school is "normal", then.
And, uh, comparing to other Chinese ppl, I think I<code>m dumb. A 600- will be a bomb in my scores. I</code>m gonna cancel them. =/</p>

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<p>Your not applying to Chinese Schools. Your applying to a different standard than the traditional Chinese "Do your Homework and be Smart"</p>

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<p>Cancel Cancel.</p>

<p>a 600 in chinese is like practically negative percentile. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SubjTestPercentileRanks.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SubjTestPercentileRanks.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>wait sorry its 3 percentile.</p>

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<p>I don't think there is any reason to cancel here. But see the longer thread on that issue </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/404233-why-does-anyone-cancel-scores.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/404233-why-does-anyone-cancel-scores.html&lt;/a> </p>

<p>for more back-and-forth.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know what colleges do with SAT II scores for foreign languages? I find it hard to believe that non-native speakers are getting the 800s in Japanese and Chinese and Korean. Is it even worth taking them if you are a non-native speaker? What would colleges think of a score in the 600s or low 700s from someone who's only had around 3 years of a language in high school? (And no native speakers in the family).</p>

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<p>I'm sure colleges would judge your foreign language score based on your race and family background</p>

<p>I mean, if you have the last name "Garcia" and got an 650 on the chinese sat 2s, I'm sure that'll put you in an advantage although you're probably on the lower percentile</p>

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<p>yeah, that's the point. My parents don't really speak Chinese at home, and actually I consider myself a Brazilian girl, not a Chinese girl, BUT... I have a Chinese name =(((</p>

<p>ok, I'm gonna send a fax cancelling my scores...</p>

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<p>Check what colleges do with scores above [some specified level you consider "low"]. In many cases, you don't have to be native-speaker fluent--not by far--to test out of a college foreign language requirement. That's why I wouldn't cancel scores of an SAT II language test.</p>