<p>Most colleges have a footnote somewhere saying that two math SAT subject tests does not count as two tests. There are some colleges where you don’t have to decide on engineering when you apply, at most of those colleges you could take no math or science subject tests, but it is true that most engineering schools have more specific requirements. (Generally Math 2 and Chemistry or Physics.) </p>
<p>Both my kids chose to go the well-rounded route and both had applied to at least one college that required 3 tests. S1 had math 2, physics and US History. S2 had Lit, US History and Biology.</p>
<p>My older son had 3 800s on subject tests - one sitting. Did it help him? I’m sure it did, he got into Harvard, CMU and got nice merit offers at two safeties. But of course if he’d only applied to the four colleges that didn’t accept him, I could argue it didn’t help him at all. That would be silly. Having seen his whole application though, I’m pretty sure it was his one-sidedness and some less than stellar essays on supplements that probably did him in.</p>
<p>I think what is tricky is when your kid is really not an Engineer-kind of kid (but does much better in the math/science subjects) and the humanities just aren’t going so well (on the SAT front…the classes are fine). I think at some point you just have to wait it out and see what happens. But, Mathmom has a good point…you have to apply to enough schools with a range of acceptances, so the kid has choices by April/May…(there are no 800’s in our future, for that I am pretty sure!)</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s any problem for a kid who says he thinks he might go into history to submit a math and science subject test.</p>
<p>Is 720 in Biology a good score?</p>
<p>I think anything over a 700 is amazing. Freshman year my daughter took the SAT bio test and got a 750. Although she did not study for the SAT, she studied VERY hard all year for the class and remembered the information. My friend does admissions interviews for an IVY league and told me " wow you can actually submit that score because anything over 700 is considered great." So yes, your score is good!!</p>
<p>Congratulations Medfuture, you did a fantastic job! Have you taken any other subject tests?</p>
<p>I have taken Math II and got a 790</p>
<p>If I’m going to be retaking subject tests and taking new ones anyway (got a 700 on spanish listening, not a great score. want to take chem) should I retake my 780 math2 if I want to go somewhere like MIT?</p>