If Penn recommends sending SAT Subject Test Scores do I also have to send my SAT score?

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I did much better on my ACT than my SAT and I want to send my ACT rather than my SAT. Penn recommends sending SAT Subject Test Scores in addition to either the ACT or SAT. They also recommend sending an entire testing history. If I send my SAT Subject Test Scores (790 Bio, 760 U.S. History, and 680 Math II) per their recommendation, do I also have to send my SAT Reasoning Test scores?

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Nope, you should have the option to select what you want to send.

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I know I have the option to select what I send per College Board’s score choice, but all Penn’s website says is that it wants a student’s entire testing history, though it says it accepts either the SAT or ACT.

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You may send either the SAT or ACT, but they want the full testing history of the test you send (all sittings)

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So when I send my ACT, send all of my sittings for that and also send my three SAT subject tests scores? But I don’t need to send my SAT scores? @yonceonhismouth

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Until this year, Penn required applicants to supply all SAT and all ACT test scores that you had. It dropped its all scores rule this year and now allows you to send whatever you want to send. Thus, you can choose to send only one SAT test or, alternatively, one ACT test, and send nothing else at all. It recommends two subject tests and you can send those without sending the SATs; moreover, you can choose if you want just to send two of the subject tests because that is all that is recommended (note, however, if applying for engineering, that school recommends a math and a science).

Like a huge number of colleges that accept score choice, it recommends that you send all scores because it can be to your advantage to do so. That is because it superscores both the SAT and the ACT, meaning if you submit two SATs (or more), or two ACTs (or more), it will use to detremine admission the highest section scores frrom the multiple tests. Thus, you should send all ACTs if superscoring will give you one or more better section scores than if you sent just one test. Moreover, you should send the SATs if, when superscored, they might be better than your superscored ACT tests. However, you are not required to send all test scores and there is no punishment for failure to do so. See http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/apply/whatpennlooksfor/testing