Do bad SAT subject scores harm your chances?

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<p>Do bad SAT subject scores harm your chances of getting accepted?</p>

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<p>thats a funny question to ask. the simple answer is, they can’t “help” your chances…</p>

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<p>i’m sure they do… otherwise they wouldn’t require them.</p>

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<p>Bad scores would either be a non-factor or a negative factor. Since Harvard requires them, it’s probably not the former.</p>

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<p>Of course it is…</p>

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<p>They don’t help, but they’re not going to kill your app. 3 bad subject scores look a lot worse than one bad subject score, though.</p>

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<p>What do you mean by “bad”?</p>

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<p>They do harm your chances but it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to get in with relatively low scores.
One of my classmates, all 3 of her subject scores were in the 600s, she got accepted.</p>

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<p>Yes.
With so many applicants to HYPMS having near-perfect standardized test scores, it’s almost a must that you get 700+ on all subject tests, and even that is low… 750+ is better (hell so is getting straight 800s on subject tests like some applicants I know).</p>

<p>It takes very, very little for adcoms at HYPMS to reject you… don’t leave them doubting your intellectual capabilities with some sub-par test scores.</p>

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<p>How would we quantify that? (What, for example, does “near perfect” mean in this context?) What data source shows just exactly how many applicants to each of those colleges submit what kinds of sets of test scores in different subjects? </p>

<p>See </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/viewbook/Rollo0809_Q&A.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/viewbook/Rollo0809_Q&A.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>for one statement from Harvard on the issue.</p>

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<p>Mine were 780, 740, 750</p>

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<p>mine were 740, 750, 760</p>

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<p>I strongly believe that high test scores are pretty important, but they’re not everything.</p>

<p>I was waitlisted with subject test scores of 800, 800, 800 and 780</p>

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<p>What about 3 high scores and a low 4th or 5th subject score?</p>

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<p>They’ll look at your top three scores. Even if (!) they steal a glance at your 4th and 5th highest scores they probably won’t even register sub-consciously unless they are 510 or so.</p>

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<p>Well… I got into Yale with a 750 Math IIC… and that’s like 80th percentile for that subject…</p>

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<p>Really? They’ll only really pay attention to the top three? Because I got a 620 on one of mine, but I’m taking at least 3 more…</p>

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<p>Why does collegeboard say: “This college reports that standardized test scores are considered as an admission factor”.??</p>

<p>just CONSIDERED?</p>

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<p>Is it really that bad if you are Hispanic and you took the Spanish SATII (800)?</p>

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<p>^ That will neither help nor hurt you.</p>