Should I retake SAT II again?

RockySterling
Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:24:04 +0000

Hey everybody. I’ve posted here before but that was months ago and things are a bit different for me now. Just got back the results from my SAT IIs and I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped. Here are my scores:

June test:
-780 US History
-650 Physics
-670 Lit

October test:
-690 Physics
-680 Math 2
-670 Lit

Given that I want to go into government/policymaking, would a 780 on USH and 690 on Physics as my two highest scores be enough for a decent chance at admission? Or should I retake them one final time and hope for something in the 700s, which I really don’t want to do because it’s getting expensive and I know I won’t have much more time to study than I did for this last one (which was maybe three hours)? For perspective in my case, I got a 34 on my ACT and 5s on APUSH, AP Calc AB, AP Lang, and AP Euro, and a 4 on AP Physics B, and I’m #2 in my class, and taking AP Physics C, Lit, Psych, Econ, and Gov/Comp during this year.

Thanks,
Rocky