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I'm just wondering whether it really matters if a kid who was born in Germany, lived there for 10 years, then moved to the U.S. gets and 800 on the german sat2? From what i can see, its another 800 for the academic index, but wouldnt it be embarrasing for any lower score? Should this person even be recognized for this? I would think that the college would recalculate the AI, replacing another sat2 with the german one, but i just wanted to know what you thought.

By Wizzz (Wizzz) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 12:54 pm: Edit

I think its fair. I also know german (almost) fluently cause my parents were born there and I plan to take the german sat 2 in november. The kid should show the admissions people what he knows, it would be a shame to see all that knowledge go to waste. I dont think it would be terrible either if he gets less than 800 --as long as its reasonable (over 700 at a minimum) --especially if the admissions people don't know from looking elsewhere on the application that he had an advantage.

By Aoe2guy (Aoe2guy) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 01:08 pm: Edit

I have nothing at all against german people, sorry if i sounded rude about it. But im just thinking, if its ok to use this 800 on a german sat2, think about it... that is basically saying that anyone who was born and lives in another major european country, can come to the US, live there and go throught its entire academic process, and display their habitual knowledge that they needed to know just by living there, and getting the same recognition for it as, lets say, an american kid getting an 800 on a french sat2...there is a clear difference there, one person actually has to learn, digest, and prep the language compared to the natural knowledge of the other with the unreasonable advantage of living and breathing the air of that country!

By O71394658 (O71394658) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 01:15 pm: Edit

My freind speaks Germany fluently at home, and he only got a 780...

By Crypto86 (Crypto86) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 02:36 pm: Edit

Yeah - it's not just speaking German. How many of you know all of the progressive and numerous other tenses of English, and we have spoken it for many years. A lot is grammar, not just knowing how to speak the language.

By Nemo (Nemo) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 03:04 pm: Edit

Interesting table here:

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

By Testtaker (Testtaker) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 03:14 pm: Edit

Does anybody find the korean table slightly odd?

By Ericng314 (Ericng314) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 04:04 pm: Edit

Chinese SAT II is interesting LOL. As long as you have a clue about Chinese, you should be able to land a 790+ . LOL I'm planning to take it in my senior year.

I think the German SAT II would show to colleges that you have a strong German background, and that could help you in your life.

By Encomium (Encomium) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 04:50 pm: Edit

I'd like to meet the 112 Latin native speakers.

By Nemo (Nemo) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 05:13 pm: Edit

lol, I didn't notice that...native Latin speakers, must be cool to be 1500 years old, I suppose

By Crypto86 (Crypto86) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 06:25 pm: Edit

Why even offer the Hebrew test when like 250 students in the entire country (maybe even world) take it?

By Crypto86 (Crypto86) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 06:27 pm: Edit

Ha, Latin native speakers! Didn't catch that one. Although I hear that Latin is making a comeback in Italy though.

By Testtaker (Testtaker) on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 07:08 pm: Edit

If you think about it the scores go up very little between two and four years of study

By Yz16 (Yz16) on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 01:56 am: Edit

yea, i hear you all when you say it's an unfair advantage being a native and all.

But consider this, if you are multilingual...that's a wonderful thing. Why not show that?

And if you're fluent in the language of the SAT II test you're taking, and English is your second language, then i'm sure whatever advantage you get from one 800 is balanced by working around the SAT I and writing up the recs and essays etc.

Don't flame me ><. I could probably 790+ the Chinese but i'm not taking it...gonna go for physics instead.