Got a 700 on the chem sat II as a sophomore this year. does it matter what year someone takes it, for college?

Question

if i am expecting high 700s in math II and mid 700s in physics (have not taken either of them), are these scores good enough for the ivy leagues if i have sufficient non academic activities?

does it matter what year someone takes the sat II tests

Answer 1

Yes and no. It matters if you did well before your junior year. A kid on Yahoo! Answers yesterday said he got a 770 in his freshman year on an SAT Subject Test. That definitely is going to help his application and would matter. However, in your situation, you did not do as good as he did and took it a year later. Still, that is not going to negatively affect your application, because you did above average and were only a sophomore taking a test aimed towards juniors. Therefore, the tests do matter if you do well, but don't have that much of a negative effect is you do poorly (if you take it before junior year, of course). Besides, looking at your situation, which I am sure you care about most, your 700 as a sophomore is not a bad score for the Ivy League. First, the Ivy League looks for SAT Subject Tests in the 680-800 range. Your score falls in that category. Secondly, you scored in the 67th percentile according to the SAT Score Report (percentiles are on the back), which is not terribly good but not horrible for your application. You still scored 70 points higher then the average for that test (630). After all of that, you are still planning on taking two more SAT Subject Tests, and if you do as well as you are expecting on those, many schools will just disregard your lower scores. Dartmouth College in NH says that they only look at your two highest scores. UPenn, Brown, Cornell, and Columbia all said the same. Therefore, if you can get both of your junior year tests in the 750+ range, you will be fine. Still, if you think that you would improve on you Chemistry score by buying a test prep book and spending some time on it, definately persue that route. An improvement would look really good on your application. In closing, I wouldn't worry about your sophomore score because most schools will look only at your highest, which will be your junior year scores. Either way, good luck.

Answer 2

no.

if you got 700 then, then probably you'd get a higher score later.

i would retake though, because a 700 is not good in percentile ranks!

Answer 3

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