<p>Do these colleges take best combined SAT I scores or one sitting(all common application): harvard, yale, cornell, bc, bu, tufts, wellesley, nyu.</p>
<ol>
<li>Start</li>
<li>Goto their website</li>
<li>See SAT/ACT or FAQ</li>
<li>Accept answer</li>
<li>Stop</li>
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<p>If Im not mistaken, the Ivies take best combined SAT
(tufts doesnt)</p>
<p>lol antarius, you're really funny(in a good way). </p>
<p>ick, my chance for tufts is...not very good then.</p>
<p>Hey thay all take the best combined but TufTTTs, I think. Most of the adcoms dont even see your weak scores, as there is a program that selects that **** automatically. At least that is what the yale director of admissions said. So no worries.</p>
<p>martin, thanks(you obviously did research on these schools. you applying to all?) do you know when do adcom start reading applications? because some of them said my apps are not complete(wonder why, gotta call. i definitely sent everything), and for one school, i still need to make sure that they received my essay(some problems when sending online).</p>
<p>I am a transfer. I am applying to HYS, Cornell, MIT, Chicago. As far as I know they start reviewing apps after the deadline and the first students get reply from 2-4 weeks. The last get theirs from 6-8 weeks after the deadline. But that's for transfer, so I am not sure how it goes for you...</p>
<p>nearly EVERY private school takes best individual scores, i.e, they mix and match SAT scores...note, it is in the colleges best interest to accept highest individual scores so it increses THEIR stats (and future ranking). WashU even mixes and matches ACT subscores (which is rather rare.) </p>
<p>The UC's are the big holdouts, accepting only the highest score from one sitting.</p>
<p>Antarius is incorrect, Tufts takes the highest scores.</p>
<p>On MIT's app they ask you to list your highest single-sitting score or the session where you scored your highest math score.</p>
<p>nope, icedragonad, mit asks the applicants to list their highest score on each individual section taken on mutiple sittings. But since there is only one space to put the date, it asks you to put the date of the sitting when you got your highest math</p>
<p>martinbluex- ALL your SAT scores are sent to the colleges by the collegeboard- you can't pick and choose which ones to send. Yale ad director is wrong, and is also new, since the former Ad. Dir. moved to Stanford this year]- just so you know.</p>
<p>From Yale's website: the committee only see highest individual score.</p>
<p>In evaluating SAT or ACT results, does Yale consider scores from previous test dates?
Yes, in the sense that readers of the application will see all of the test results that are in your file. In most cases we receive cumulative SAT, SAT II and ACT records reflecting results from all test dates. If you have repeated any of the tests, however, the formal admissions committee that meets to vote on applications will see only the highest score you received on any individual test.</p>
<p>It seems almost impossible to find this information on school websites. Sparked into curiosity by this thread, I went to the websites for Amherst College, Brown University, NYU, Colombia, Emerson, and Harvard, and couldn't find any of them!</p>
<p>GCs should know this kind of thing, but we won't see them again till the fall.</p>
<p>Also, the thing from Yale's site is confusing, does that mean the "highest individual test" as in test sitting or as in by section?</p>
<p>"highest individual test"</p>
<p>If you have taken the SAT more than once, they will look at the highest score you got in each of the 3 sections.</p>
<p>example: test 1 you got 600/800/710</p>
<p>test 2 you got 700/770/ 700</p>
<p>what the admissions committee will see is 700, 800, 710</p>