<p>Its like the high school requirements they have for UC. Foreign language 2 years required, 3 recommended.
You are better off taking it because even if you have your heart set out for Davis you will apply to other colleges as well and it can be good plus on your application. I mean let say you have one bad semester in a subject but then one good one and the bad semester occurred because you had some drama or something in your life. If you take the SAT subject test in that subject and do well at least its some way of showing that you can do much better than the one semester bad grade. That’s just how I see it. If they say recommended then do it. You never know it might just give your application that push to get you in.</p>