Girlie AGDee's College Search Thread

[AGDee]

Since my time (early 80s also), we only needed the ACT everywhere in Michigan, private or public. I never knew the SAT IIs existed until hypoallergenic started researching schools. Most people here have never heard of them at all. She did take the US history right after she took the APUSH exam and she also took the English Lit one, but that one is more skill based than knowledge based anyway. She took Spanish right after finishing Spanish III in high school but, well, she didn't have those scores sent...lol. She said it was so hard that she just started putting the answer that sounded the prettiest. I shared that with her Spanish III teacher and he was really surprised because he thought she really knew her stuff. I think you really have to be fluent in Spanish to do well on that one!

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Originally Posted by AGDee

She took Spanish right after finishing Spanish III in high school but, well, she didn't have those scores sent...lol. She said it was so hard that she just started putting the answer that sounded the prettiest. I shared that with her Spanish III teacher and he was really surprised because he thought she really knew her stuff. I think you really have to be fluent in Spanish to do well on that one!

I took French and Biology SAT II's for my application to Wellesley College (didn't get accepted, but it was my reach school) and my French scores were not great. I had taken 3.5 years of French at that point (the half year being my AP year) and it was just so hard. In high school you are not in an immersion environment and your exposure to the language is so limited that when tested like that it's like being thrown the the sharks. And even the grammar stuff I did know I didn't have the time to think through and fill in right. It's a hard test. But I did well in all my college French courses, up until the 400 levels when they got really hard. Go figure.