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i just want to know what you think. is a 750 score on a biology (molecular) sat II an ivy-league-worthy score? and does it help that i took it in freshman year?

By Aceshigh (Aceshigh) on Monday, June 30, 2003 - 11:01 pm: Edit

that's a great score for a freshman, dude. great score for bio as far as i know. what percentage was it?

By Crazydiamond (Crazydiamond) on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 09:04 am: Edit

thanks! it was a 91 percentile. i don't think it matter though since this year's scores were compared to last year's to get the percentile

By Yellow (Yellow) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 04:42 pm: Edit

considering 619 was the average and 750 is above that...it is a good score! don't retake it unless you take ap bio...and even then its not needed...

By Crypto86 (Crypto86) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 06:32 pm: Edit

Great job for your freshman year. That score is great in any year, but for freshman it's even better. I got a 710 Bio M as a freshman - I wish colleges would take the freshman issue into consideration, but almost all of them probably don't Great score nevertheless!

By Arora00 (Arora00) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 07:26 pm: Edit

Thats sick bro.
Damn nice. I was stupid when i was a freshman, not saying im any smarter now but still...

By Nemo (Nemo) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 08:01 pm: Edit

Cool. I performed similarly last year (I'm going to be a junior in September) by getting a 760 E. However, I took it just to take three and keep the College Board from cheating me out of my base fee for SAT IIs. My general rule for SAT II's is to stick with 750+ (eh, Ivy Leagues too), or if that's difficult, just keep it in the seven hundreds (selective colleges, in general), because they should display the subjects in which you have "achieved the most." In addition, doing that on the M is really good freshman year, as it seems that's the harder (or more restrictive to non-AP students) part. However, it's easier to get really high on M, as this table shows:

http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2002/pdf/twelve.pdf

In fact, if one looks through the Real SAT II Tests book, the curve is better if you're looking for 750+ on the M section. However, I wasn't expecting that per se, and I took E (another reason that I took that was that the content is usually simpler).

And that's an SAT II Bio preview and post-view, I guess. Hope it answered whichever question it was supposed to answer.

Oh, and look into other tests to your courseload to take. For example, World History and Math IC, which are what I took with Bio-E last year.

By Lateralus (Lateralus) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 09:01 pm: Edit

bio E 750 = 96%, bio m 750 = 91%, do colleges see any difference?

By Aoe2guy (Aoe2guy) on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 01:16 pm: Edit

i dont think so....from whats on the "score summary" collegeboard report, they see the date, test name (e or m option is listed too) and the score...but i think molecular should be recognized better unless you are entering agriculture or something...i see molecular as the "real" biology, some E stuff is ok, but things like the environmental impact is just a waste of easy questions.