<p>I got an 800 Spanish and a 690 Math II … as the title reads.</p>
<p>Is Spanish your native language or the language you speak the most at home?</p>
<p>690 is unfortunately not high enough. Math II has a generous curve so I’d say you’d want 770+ for those schools. I need to get a 660 in Math II up to about that level for Columbia and Penn.</p>
<p>I grew up speaking English with my dad and Spanish with my mom … never took any formal Spanish instruction until this year’s AP Spanish V.</p>
<p>I don’t think your spanish subject test will help you very much if you identify yourself as hispanic.</p>
<p>Next year (junior year) I will be in Italy as a Rotary Youth Exchange student - how would taking the Italian SAT look?</p>
<p>bump same question as ^^</p>
<p>Italian SAT would look good, very good IMHO because so few people take it.
And you have an uncommon mix of languages! Just make sure you do really well on it lol</p>
<p>Would they be impressed with my essays being about my exchange?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think that would be out of the ordinary. What I’ve gleaned is that the “how” of the essay is more important than the subject; Just be creative with the way you make it</p>
<p>But are the students that go on exchange typically the ones that would be applying to HYPS? I know I asked my fellow top 10%, and they all thought it was absurd and would kill their GPA.</p>
<p>Hmm…I’d write about it, but the way you talk about it is still the most important.</p>
<p>Ok - thanks for answering all my ?s</p>