Does recommended mean recommended or required

entomom
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:30:40 +0000

Recommended means recommended. Which means if you have the SAT IIs, it can help your application, but if you don’t you won’t automatically be rejected. That said, if HYPS are really on your son’s list, I’d read it as required if he wants to be a competitive applicant.

Most colleges require 2 or fewer. 2 are required at Y, 2 recommended at S, 3 required at H & P. That’s really not that many, if your son is looking at those schools he should have had course work to be able to take 2-3 of these: USH, Math2, Physics, Chem, Bio, English, or FL. Math2 should be taken after PreCalc and the others can be done at the same time as taking the AP test with very little, if any, extra studying.