How important are SAT II's exactly?

JDarps
Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:38:59 +0000

Really.
How important are they?
I have a good GPA, a decent SAT score [an 1800 roughly] and yet my SAT II’s were in the 500s [I got a 580 on one and I did a little more poorly on the other].
It’s too late to sign up to retake them [for the colleges I’m applying to anyway].
Do you think a UC is out of the question for me? Should I just apply to schools that do not require SAT IIs?
I feel like such a dolt.