<p>On the parents' board, there is a thread for the high school class of 2014, and in one post (I am an OLD parent and too techno-challenged to link it - sorry!), there is a link that says Carnegie Mellon only accepts SAT and ACT scores from jr. and sr. years. Can someone tell me the rationale for this? Just curious.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>Perhaps it is because they do not want too much time to have passed between your taking the coursework and your college prereqs. So, let’s say you scored a 5 in Biology when you were in 9th grade and your freshman year in college you would like to enroll in a higher level Bio class - too much time will have passed between your original understanding of the material to be successful in a course where that would have been a prereq. Not saying that I agree, but this could be a rationale.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the policy is on AP exams. What I saw was specifically about either the SAT or ACT.</p>
<p>I sent their admissions office an email last week about accepting subject test scores from my sophomore year. </p>
<p>This was their reply:
"Thanks for your email to the Carnegie Mellon University Office of Admission.</p>
<p>It is Carnegie Mellon’s preference that standardized tests be taken in the junior or senior year. We will, however, still accept scores from your sophomore year, and they will be considered in your application.</p>
<p>Best regards from Carnegie Mellon’s Office of Admission."</p>
<p>My guess is that they just want the most recent assessment of the student’s abilities to determine their current readiness for college.</p>
<p>You can submit earlier scores, but in general from when I applied, they don’t want scores before junior year. It makes sense because older scores don’t reflect your ability. It always bothered me when schools, for some reason, want your 9th grade scores. I will never understand the rationale for schools who want to judge people from their performance 3-4 years ago. Actually, most schools will only look at your highest score; they’re just too lazy to correct useless policies.</p>