<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am a senior that has sent an early decision to Columbia, and is preparing to send applications to other ivy leagues. I took my 3rd SAT yesterday, and I am afraid I might have not done so well in reading. I want to take an ACT, but am I forced to send my ACT score to colleges if I am sending my SAT score already? Quick response would be very appreciated. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Nope, they won’t even know that you took the ACT unless you send it to them.</p>
<p>You need to read the web sites of the schools. Some require all standardized tests to be sent.</p>
<p>The question is not whether they will find out. It is whether they require. Some schools do require sending in all test scores if you ever took it.</p>
<p>I don’t know which school would required all scores of tests ever taken. You are to send in either SAT or ACT scores. If you should chose to send in SAT scores, you are required to send in ALL SAT scores if a school does not do score choice. If you should decide to only ACT scores, you are not required to submit SAT scores.</p>
<p>This is from Columbia’s website:
“Although SAT Subject Test scores are not required for students submitting the ACT, those scores are welcome should you choose to take the tests”</p>
<p>This is from Cornell’s website:
“You must submit your scores for either the SAT Reasoning Test or the ACT with Writing…Note that Cornell requires students to submit all scores from SAT tests taken and does not participate in the College Board’s Score Choice.”</p>
<p>I think this is the norm. You either submit ACT or SAT, but there is no need to submit both, unless there are some specific SAT IIs required by a college (like Cornell). Because Cornell does not participate in Score Choice, you would have to submit SAT Is too. For a school like Cornell, it doesn’t pay to take ACT. </p>
<p>To answer OP, you won’t need to submit ACT if you don’t want to.</p>
<p>Stanford is an example of a school which requires ALL standardized testing (admittedly not an Ivy). [Testing</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/testing.html]Testing”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/testing.html)<br>
“The ACT Plus Writing or the SAT (Critical Reading, Math and Writing) is required. Official scores from all test dates must be sent to Stanford directly from the ACT or the College Board (the reporting agency for the SAT) or both if the applicant has taken the ACT and the SAT”</p>
<p>I thought I remembered Yale having the same requirement but it does not. It’s similar to Cornell’s.</p>
<p>Of the ivies, Penn is the only one that requires all SAT, all subject test, AND all ACT scores. Cornell requires either all SAT or all ACT tests, plus all subject tests. Yale requires either all SAT and all subject tests, or, alternatively to both of those, all ACT scores. The remaining ivies allow you to send whatever you want to send as long as you send at least one SAT or ACT, plus two subject test scores, or, in the case of Brown and Columbia, send at least an ACT or alternatively, at least one SAT plus two subject test scores.</p>
<p>Note that preventing College Board (SAT) or ACT.org from sending a score does not guarantee the college will not learn of it. You need to check what your high school does because many put all your scores on the official transcript sent to colleges.</p>