Do Ivy League schools all only take your highest scores for the SAT and ACT?

<p>Check the admissions/application info or search for score choice on each Ivy League school’s website to check its policy. As for SATs (not sure about ACTs), half of the Ivies want you to send ALL your scores, clearly saying they DO NOT allow score choice. </p>

<p>Yale, Cornell, UPenn and Columbia want ALL scores.</p>

<p>Yale says you need to submit ALL SATs and SAT IIs and will consider all. Cornell says it does not participate in Score-Choice and requires official scores only (not on transcript). U Penn says to submit “entire testing history” and they will utilize highest subsection. Columbia says " Please note that Columbia requires that students submit scores from ALL test dates…The SAT consists of three sections, each graded on an 800-point scale; if you take the test more than once, you will be evaluated on the highest score you receive in any individual section…Students must submit all SAT Subject Test scores from all test dates."</p>

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Dartmouth say it’s ok to use Score-Choice.</p>

<p>Harvard says “Students applying to Harvard are free to use the College Board’s new Score Choice option and/or a similar option already offered by ACT. Score Choice rests on the same principle that has supported our admissions process for decades — that applicants should be free to present their own best case. We have always counted an applicant’s highest test scores and have allowed students to decide whether they wanted to send all their test scores.”</p>

<p>Princeton says “Applicants are welcome to use the score choice option for standardized test score submission. Princeton will consider the highest individual section results across all sittings of the SAT Reasoning and the highest composite score for the ACT with Writing, as well as the two highest SAT Subject Test scores. We encourage applicants to submit all official test scores as soon as they are available.”</p>

<p>Brown says “You are welcome to take advantage of the Score Choice option”.</p>

<p>Dartmouth says “If students take the test multiple times, they will be able to select how many of the attempts to report on their official transcript from the College Board. Students must report all section scores from a single test sitting…Laskaris said Dartmouth admissions officers primarily consider a prospective student’s highest possible SAT score during the application reading process and will combine sections from multiple sittings, if applicable. The result becomes the applicant’s official recorded score.”</p>