Can I get into Harvard and other top schools without submitting SAT Subject Tests?

Applying to College
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My SAT Subject Tests scores are not great. Can I still get into these schools without submitting them? Thank you.

SAT: 1560
GPA: 4.71

Several national and international awards

I am considered low income.

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Since you took them, they are not a hardship to you
https://talk.college-confidential.com/college-admissions/2027962-sat-subject-tests-are-not-truly-optional-for-middle-upper-middle-class-applicants-at-elite-colleges.html#latest

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@Eeyore123 I had an SAT Fee waiver. I have no more waivers to use right now.

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My point was that you already took subject tests. I is hard to argue that you can’t do something that is already done. Can someone get in without subject tests? Yes. Can you? Idk.

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It depends upon the college. As examples, Harvard calls them optional, but expects them unless financial issues exist or applicant lives in an area where nobody has ever heard of Subject Tests. Neither applies to the OP. Penn, in contrast, say optional is truly optional;.

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Unless the university requires the applicant to submit “all” sat scores, how do they know that OP took the tests? without submitting the scores they could as well interpret it as not writing.

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Harvard rejects 95%+ of its applicants, of whom the vast majority are well-qualified. They have the luxury of simply looking for reasons to reject.

As to how do they know? Some schools list scores on the transcript. If not, there may be other current or past applicants from the HS with Subject Tests. If other students from the HS have them, then an applicant without them can hardly feign ignorance of their existence. And with fee waivers, an applicant can rarely claim cost as the issue.

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D’s HS listed all test scores on her official school transcript. It even included her entrance exam score as an 8th grader.

IMO, I would look to schools that truly don’t expect to see subject tests.