<p>I can't find any reliable recent information on this anywhere! My next step is to email admissions, but I don't want to be that student and have them judge me for asking that question.</p>
<p>@TP2525: Duke’s policy follows: “For students who choose to submit the ACT with writing, Duke will consider the highest composite score and highest scores on each section, regardless of test date, but will not recalculate the composite score.” This information is easily ascertained here: <a href=“Apply - Duke Undergraduate Admissions”>Apply - Duke Undergraduate Admissions; .</p>
<p>@toptier What’s the difference between considering the highest scores on each section and superscoring? What more could a recalculated composite tell you compared to considering the highest section scores? </p>
<p>@TopTier: DS took SAT (1920) and SAT Subject tests (1840) winter (2013) of junior year. </p>
<p>However, lesson learned…do not sign up for subject tests (chemistry) prior to completing the actual course! He did, however, receive a 33 composite on the ACT with written this past June. He chose not to retake the SAT this fall (senior year), as he is taking 5 AP classes and 4th year Spanish, and wants his focus to be on his grades (1st quarter all A’s) and also enjoying his senior year. He has applied ED to Duke and I am curious, as to your opinion, if the lower SAT scores will have an affect on his overall application.</p>
<p>I also submitted both my SAT (2080) and ACT (34). Will it hurt my application that my SAT score is so much lower than my ACT score or do they only look at the ACT score?</p>
<p>@jomagiles: My post (#1) provides Undergraduate Admissions’ policy (verbatim quotation), since clearly that’s all that is relevant for Duke. I intentionally have not compared this to “super-scoring.”</p>
<p>@sfranz: Of course, it’s impossible to suggest definitively whether your son’s SAT results will have a SUBSTANTIAL admissions impact, without MUCH greater insight regarding his entire application, including key information such as recommendations and essays (that cannot be assessed accurately from afar). With this said – and especially considering that 25,000+ candidates each year will have truly distinguished secondary school records, will have virtually unlimited potential, will be fully deserving of matriculation, and will be essentially indistinguishable from those who are admitted . . . but only about 10 percent will be accepted – I don’t believe his SAT scores will provide a competitive advantage. I wish him good luck. </p>
<p>@sfranz what do you mean SAT Subject tests (1840) – is that the total score of 3 separate subject tests?</p>