<p>I’m a Hispanic, low income, first generation college student in a not so competitive public HS looking to major in Economics.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 UW/4.6 W (My UW GPA would be a 4.0 if freshmen year grades weren’t counted, upward trend?) </p>
<p>Class Rank: Top 15 People/600ish students</p>
<p>SAT: 2100/2400
740 Math
670 Critical Reading
690 Writing</p>
<p>I haven’t taken subject tests but I’m hoping for 800s in Math 2, Physics, and Spanish</p>
<p>Senior Year Schedule:</p>
<p>AP Calc AB
AP Physics C
AP Statistics
AP English Lit
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics
H Marine Biology</p>
<p>ECs: </p>
<ul>
<li>40+ Hours community Service at Local Hospital - 11th, 12th</li>
<li>Varsity Wrestling (Stopped due to injury) - 10th</li>
<li>Science Honor Society President - 12th</li>
<li>Math Honor Society - 11th, 12th</li>
<li>Participated in environmental restoration for the Tropical Audubon Society - 11th, 12th</li>
</ul>
<p>That is not true at all. Take it and get an 800. Why do you think there are SAT IIs in Chinese and Korean? Who takes these tests? Mostly Chinese and Korean students. You might be “native” but not know your grammar and rules like learners of Spanish. If anything, take it and see what level you’d place in college (and I would actually suggest you take an advanced grammar Spanish class in college if you’re a native). The whole “you can’t take it b/c you’re a native speaker” rule is false.</p>
<p>There’s nothing to say that you can’t take the SAT II as a native speaker. My point was that is not a positive addition to an application. This is the same for Spanish, Chinese, Korean or any other native speaker.</p>
<p>Why would a native speaker want to know placement in college? </p>
<p>The purpose of SAT IIs is to test the knowledge gained from a HS class, not from 17 years of practice.</p>
<p>Argh, 1) why is it so hard for people to understand that not all “native-speakers” know their grammar? Speaking it at home while being educated in the English language leaves the majority of these kids only knowing how to “speak it” and not knowing how to properly conjugate verbs like “caber”. Bottom line, if she wants to take it and gets a good score, I don’t see how this is “bad” or how this would “retract” from her application. 2) Assuming that b/c one is Hispanic, one is automatically a fluent speaker of Spanish is false. Only about 35% of second generation Hispanics speak Spanish fluently, and about 17% of third generation Hispanics speak it fluently. So just b/c the poster says she’s Hispanic, does not mean she’s a native speaker. Did you know that Ken Salazar, our Secretary of the Interior (and a Hispanic) is 5th generation Spanish? I’m sure he speaks Spanish natively…</p>
<p>^ I’m a “he” by the way lol (don’t know where you got the impression that I was a girl). Anyway I don’t necessarily know the “rules” of grammar, but I can tell when something is properly conjugated just by my ear alone. But regardless, I’d say my English is a lot better than my Spanish is as I often forget some words in spanish </p>
<p>By the way, I wanted this to be a chance thread, not a discussion over whether I should take the Spanish SAT II. I’m sure if I take it and do well along with 2 other subject tests, it will not hurt me in the application process :</p>