I have a low SAT score but very high ACT and am hoping to apply to top-tier universities (some that don’t do score choice) and the UC system. I’ve also taken three SAT subject tests and am hoping to send those in. My question is: for colleges that don’t participate in score choice, can I choose to send my ACT and only my SAT subject tests even if I’ve taken the SAT? In other words, since I’ve taken subject tests, am I stuck with having to send the SAT I along with my ACT + subject tests?
What you need to find out is whether the school wants all score which is pretty much the opposite of score choice. Since you are trying not to submit SAT1 scores, so score choice is less relevant to you. You may submit ACT instead of SAT1 score for any school except the few that want all scores of both tests if taken. Anyway, if a school do score choice, it would not be on the “all score” list.
Georgetown requires all SAT, ACT and subject test scores. Likewise, Penn. For Yale, you can submit either all ACT or alternatively all SAT and subject tests; if you submit any subject tests you must submit all SAT and all subject tests; in essence you cannot submit just ACT to Yale if you submit subject tests. Stanford requires both all SAT and all ACT, but you can submit those subject test scores you want to submit. Cornell used to be like Georgetown and Penn but rewrote it’s all scores rule, which is now ambiguous in that it appears to allow what you suggest but one could possibly construe its rule to be more restrictive and require all SAT, subject tests, and ACTs. Pomona and Bernard, like Cornell, have ambiguous all scores rules that seem to allow what you desire to do but might require all SATs if you submit subject tests… UCs likewise are ambiguous. They definitely require all SATs if you submit one SAT but its rules can be construed to allow you to submit just ACT (and only one of those if you desire) and whatever subject tests you desire to submit. When the rule is ambiguous, It may be wise to contact the university and ask for clarification.
Other than the above, you can do what you suggest for any college. In fact, from what I have been able to determine, it appears the only other colleges that actually have any kind of all scores/anti score choice rule are Harvey Mudd, Tufts, Rice and Syracuse and those would allow what you desire to do (except Syracuse does not even use subject tests for admission). Though College Board has on its site a purported, long list of the colleges that are anti score choice and require all SAT scores, see http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf, that list is, to put it mildly, unreliable. It identifies a number of four year colleges as having an all scores rule when in fact they have none and actually lists a large number of community, junior, and for profit colleges as having an all scores rule when those do not even require any test scores for admission.
We just went through admissions this year with 2040 SAT and 36 ACT. D applied to many schools and georgetown and stanford were the only two requiring all scores. I would interpret test score policies liberally and not send your SAT based on an ambiguous policy
Just a minor correction to my above post. I forgot to list Carnegie Mellon as a college with anti-score choice rule but it also would allow what you propose to do: submit ACT and subject test scores without submitting SAT.