<p>When they say they only require 2 SAT IIs, but give you space to list 6 SAT II scores on the application...are they secretly telling you that you should have more than 2 SAT IIs to be a competitive applicant?</p>
<p>the space is for people who takes the SAT II more than once in case they want to improve your scores. With the new policies in most colleges, 2 SATII should be enough already.</p>
<p>I've always wondered about this, too. Some apps give you four spaces even though they only require two, yet they say report highest scores only so obviously they don't want multiple scores of the same test. </p>
<p>Anyway, I have another question kind of related to this: I've taken four SAT IIs, but I really don't want to write one of them on my app because the score is not that great. (I know they'll see it on my official score report, but I still don't want to write it on my app.) I have three others good scores though, so can I just write those three? Or do I have to write all of them?</p>
<p>I actually had the same question too :D</p>
<p>Most competitive applicants at top schools will have more than 2.</p>
<p>thanks for the info, bobby</p>
<p>most will have more than 2 but the colleges only factor in the top 2, right?</p>
<p>So...does anyone know if you have 3 SAT II scores, 2 good ones and 1 kinda bad, can you just write down the 2 good ones?</p>
<p>Well I think that when it comes down to this, the college will only evaluate what you want to be evaluated. So, that when you send your SAT grade report to the school, though the all the scores will appear, the college should only look at what you want to be seen as said on your app. though i don't doubt that some colleges still look at the other scores. Nonetheless, when you have more than the required number of SAT II's, the schools application should usually only have enough spaces for those and nothing more (I remember that MIT and Princeton would only look at your top three), and if it does have more space, I would contact the school's admissions office and ask them their policy on subject tests.</p>
<p>They are going to look at all of them. They see all of them on the score report. IMHO it makes you look stupid to think you are gonna hide that one bad score, or lessen it's impact. They will only "officially" consider two though, and that "bad" score isn't going to hurt unless it's like a 400 or something. And if I know us CCers, the "bad scores" that are being referred to here are prolly 700+.</p>