When schools say they require TWO SAT IIs, do they just look at those 2 or..all?

Applying to College
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<p>I took 3 SAT IIs, and I did bad on one of them. Let's say a school, like NYU, requires 2 subject tests + SAT I, does this school look at my SAT I scores and the 2 HIGHER SAT II scores only? </p>

<p>SAT IIs:
700 Chemistry
710 Math II
740 Chinese (bad~~~I am Chinese)</p>

<p>^Will they look at the 740 and 720 INSTEAD of the 700 and 720? (The 700 Chem + 720 Math seems stronger....)</p>

<p>It is true that the 740 seems good, but it is a language test, which the schools will probably don't prefer...</p>

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<p>Some use only highest two, some look at all submitted. NYU is changing the rules for those applying for entry in 2011 and SAT IIs will not even be required if you submit SAT or ACT but you can choose to do something else:</p>

<p>"Beginning with students applying for admission in September 2011, applicants for admission to NYU will be able to submit:</p>

<p>"The SAT Reasoning Test or</p>

<p>"The ACT (with Writing Test) or</p>

<p>"Three SAT Subject Test scores (one in literature or the humanities, one in math or science, and one non-language of the student’s choice) or</p>

<p>“Three AP exam scores (one in literature or the humanities, one in math or science, and one non-language of the student’s choice)”</p>

<p><a href=“http://admissions.nyu.edu/applying.for.admissions/freshman/standardized.tests.html[/url]”>How to Apply;

<p>From this it appears that the language SAT II will be given little weight since if you choose the SAT II route they won’t consider it as one of those needed to equal the three.</p>

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<p>Most colleges will look at the highest two. However, if you’ve applied to certain colleges which require specific Subj tests (eg: MIT requires two, one math and one sci) they will look at those, even they are not the highest two.</p>

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<p>Correct, as is the rest of the information in the quoted reply.</p>

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<p>Just so we’re clear, you didn’t get one bad score… you got three bad scores. Those Chem and Math II scores are somewhere in the 60th percentile range, which is not good. This is coming from someone who didn’t realize that a 750 in Math II was actually quite bad until it was too late to change anything, so I’m not trying to be mean - I’m trying to convince you to retake all three of those tests if you have time.</p>

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<p>I strongly disagree with the extremely knowledgeable tokenadult and drusba. IMO, colleges “look” at EVERYthing in your file. If you have two sub-500 subject test scores, and two 700’s, I can guarantee you that the 500’s will be noticed. They maybe heavily discounted, but human psychology is such that it is extremely difficult for them to be ignored. Also, if colleges only “looked” at two, why are they starting to ignore Score Choice and require ALL scores be sent?</p>

<p>But to the OP: you have three scores that are 700+, which is outstanding for all but a dozen colleges.</p>