<p>The other day, I received penn's viewbook in the mail and under the Entrance Examinations heading, it says "Most appicants take the exams more than once and all results must be submitted to Penn" in reference to the ACT/SAT.</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>@pandaaa</p>
<p>It’s all too true.</p>
<p>its plenty true. a lot of applicants DO take the ACT or SAT more than once, and Penn requires that you send ALL of your scores for either the ACT or SAT</p>
<p>It’s not either all ACT or all SAT. If you have taken both tests, you must send results from all dates of both tests. I contacted the admissions office recently and this is what they told me. So if you’ve taken the SAT twice and the ACT three times or something, you cannot just send 3 ACTs or 2 SATs, you must send ALL 5 tests in this case.</p>
<p>Not true. If you don’t want to send any ACT scores you don’t have to. At least that is what they told me this summer.</p>
<p>ok thanks guys!</p>
<p>I don’t feel very confident about my october ACT score:S</p>
<p>I’m with oakley–I was unsure so I called admissions the other day and I was told that “applicants must submit ALL scores”. The person on the phone could have been confused because when I told her I had taken both the ACT and SAT and asked if I could send all ACT or all SAT, she sounded a tad confused… however, she did ultimately say, send them all! I know its what I’m doing–just in case. </p>
<p>Quick question: those of you who are opting to send ACT, are YOU also sending subject tests or did you take advantage of the fact that you could opt out?</p>
<p>wait…WHAT?..you have to send ACT AND SAT?!</p>
<p>wait, i just looked on the website. and its true…we must send in all…</p>
<p>Yep. You must send in ALL scores. Even if you’ve taken the SAT 4 times and the ACT 3 and 6 subject tests or something, scores from ALL must be submitted. I’ve noticed a lot of confusion on these threads… hopefully everyone understands that it is all scores that we must send.</p>
<p>that blows…i just sent in my commonapp without listing my act scores…but then i emailed my adcom today and apologized and sent in my act scores right away. you think thats okay right? ahh…</p>
<p>wait whattttt.??? That would mean I need to pay for each of my ACT test scores individually. That makes absolutely no sense. I can’t afford to do that plus their 75 dollar app fee… For the SAT, I think it’s just one fee and it all goes to the university right? But ACT you have to pay multiple times for multiple scores even if they are going to the same school.</p>
<p>I doubt that they would make you do that…</p>
<p>Turn in one ACT score, turn in the rest.
Turn in no ACT score, forget you ever took it.</p>
<p>But they don’t have access to all of your ACT scores cuz that’s confidential like u really only select one, for SAT scores they see all your scores right? </p>
<p>so i mean there’s really no way they can see if you’re reporting all your ACT scores or not</p>
<p>I just asked my guidance counslor as well…she said the same thing.</p>
<p>but i guess, if they REALLY want it or can tell somehow that I have more scores, then ill have to shell out some more $$, but I find that so ridiculous…</p>
<p>@ qwt: Yea that’s what I did. You should be fine. They really needed to be more public about this rule, though. I only thought this applied to the SAT Score Choice option and only found out about this after I submitted my Common App. Not even a Guidance Counselor mentioned this to me. Soo yea…</p>
<p>Oh and btw, I don’t think they have access to scores you do not send. But this does mean you should be dishonest in your reporting.</p>
<p>If cost is a serious concern, call your Regional Director and see if you can self-report. I read somewhere that Yale allows this even though they have an “All-Score” submission policy like Penn.</p>
<p>w/e…idk i don’t want to risk it. </p>
<p>i sent my act scores, which were not very good (29)…my sats were a little better (around 31)…idk i really hope it doesn’t work against me</p>
<p>Well, I’ll just send all mine too then. But really, to be honest, I would have no idea about the significance of this policy if I wasn’t on CC. Most of my friends aren’t doing this so it makes me wonder how many people actually are…</p>
<p>I agree with the comment that this should’ve been made more public or clairfied further.</p>
<p>hm, yea…i often wonder what i’d do without CC…</p>
<p>But how else could they have made it clearer? They do say right on the website under testing requirements that applicants must submit ALL scores. How else do other schools make it clear? I guess it’s a little iffy because you could assume all SAT or all ACT, but I’d think unless a college made that specification that all means all.</p>