weak in history

Applying to College
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<p>i have a great grades in most of my classes except history. i suck. i sucked in freshmen year, i sucked sophomore year, and it was my only B junior year.
then i took the SATII’s and got my lowest grade (670). my others were 790 and 750. then i took the AP exam and got a 3. next year i’ve decided to not even take a history.
how will all this look to adcom’s and could it cost me a spot at selective schools like penn, northwestern, duke, washu even if i want to major in a math or science related field? any advice is much appreciated.
here’s a link to the rest of my resume if you wanna see that. i’m the OP
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=360703[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=360703&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>token, if you’re going to major in math/science, this is no big deal. Plus, you got into APUSH in itself, which shows them you aren’t totally ■■■■■■■■ in history. Your scores aren’t even half bad… I would say they would shrug this off in light of the rest of your app.</p>

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<p>herrrrrrrrroooooooooo beanies and thank you</p>

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<p>Just be careful about your writing. History scores are strongly coupled with writing scores. You should pay attention to your SAT writing score.</p>

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<p>A 670 and a B are not that “horrible”.</p>

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<p>my sat writing score was 730. i didn’t think that was bad at all. i’m a good writer; i just suck at history</p>

<p>i nkow they’re not “horrible”. i just don’t want it to cost me. maybe they won’t even notice. who knows.</p>

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<p>bumps and lumps</p>

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<p>there’s a weak point in everyone’s app that ppl are paranoid about thinking they have to be perfect for admission’s. not uncommon, and no need to worry.</p>

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<p>If you’re going to be weak in anything, you’re very lucky it’s history–not on the SAT I, and while colleges generally want 3 years of it, they rarely need 4.</p>

<p>However…why on earth did you take that SAT II if you suck at history? I guess it doesn’t really matter since you got a 670, and that’s not disastrous, plus you have two other strong scores, which is all most colleges need. Just curious.</p>

<p>You’ll be fine.</p>