<p>because I just got both back (my first time taking either of them) and my SAT scores were deplorable while my ACT scores were all right. I was initially planning on retaking both of them because I didn't study for either exams but now I'm wondering if I should even bother retaking the SATI. That grade was a lot lower than my ACT and I still need to take the SATII. Also, what is considered a good writing grade? Since all Yale requires is the ACT plus writing, it must count a lot...</p>
<p>No, it’s not better to send SATs than the ACT, they’re both equally good. Essentially all schools require the ACT w/writing as this is equivalent to the SAT which as of a few years ago includes a writing section (writing had previously been a SAT II).</p>
<p>well it would really help if we knew your scores</p>
<p>I got an 1840 on SAT and 30 composite for ACT with 10 on the writing. I’m not an SAT person, obviously, and I wasn’t planning on sending these scores since I hadn’t studied or prepped before hand. What I really want to know, I guess, is should I retake both and study extra hard for the SAT or should I just focus more on raising my ACT score. That’s also why I wanted to know which of the two mattered more in admissions.</p>
<p>i heard that over 90% of applicants send SAT scores of some sort. if you take subject tests and do well on them, it may be to your advantage to send them along with the ACT.</p>
<p>yale requires you to send both sat and act scores, so you’re going to have to send them both anyway.</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t require both so don’t worry about that, Kitch12, Yale allows you to choose either the SAT and SAT subject tests or the ACT plus writing.</p>
<p>i think he’s right, actually–</p>
<p>*Please note that beginning in March 2009, Yale will require that applicants submit all score results from the ACT, SAT I and SAT II testing. </p>
<p>i wish we could choose though!</p>
<p>I rescind my statement… polices changed from the 2008-09 season. Thanks emcc24.</p>
<p>Just to clarify further: Yale doesn’t REQUIRE you to take both tests. You need to send both test scores only if you take them both. If you take only one, that’s fine.</p>
<p>Specifically:</p>
<p>Yale requires applicants to submit the following testing:
* SAT I and any two SAT II Subject Tests
or
* The ACT with Writing</p>
<p>^^ What about a student who took both the SAT and ACT but plans to rely on only the ACT plus a couple SAT subject tests? Must she submit the SAT reasoning test just because she took it - long before the policy was announced? I would read the after-March policy as not requiring submission of an SAT I test taken before it was implemented. Am I misguided?</p>
<p>ok I just asked Yale on facebook and this is what they told me</p>
<p>I said: I’m a little confused about the new standardized testing policy. Is it now mandatory for me to send in both my SAT and ACT scores and every single one of them or can I still choose to send in only my ACT scores but I have to send in all of them?</p>
<p>and they replied: You can either submit the SAT I exam and two SAT II subject tests, or just the ACT exam with writing. If you wanted to submit both your SAT test results as well as your ACT test results, you are more than welcome to. But you are by no means required to, and you can submit just one or the other.</p>
<p>That said, within the SAT examinations, we do not participate in the score choice option, so we’d like to see all testing history. However, we will only consider the scores that you indicate on your application.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Aniram,
I would suggest going with the info on Yale’s website and not from facebook, or an email from Admissions [Standardized</a> Testing 2009-2010 | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/testing2.html]Standardized”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/testing2.html)</p>
<p>oh, sorry. I got the Yale profile on facebook off of the link on their website so I assumed that whoever was answering everybody’s questions was knowledgeable enough.</p>
<p>Actually, I think what aniram got from Facebook was an attempt to clarify the ambiguity on Yale’s website. It seems to me there are different ways to read this statement from the website:
“beginning with the March 2009 testing, Yale will require applicants to submit all score results from both the SAT I and II and the ACT.”</p>
<p>“both” (a poor word choice) could refer to both the SAT I and II, or both the SATs and ACT. And “beginning with the March 2009 testing” could be read to mean one must send all tests taken after that date, but not before. To me, the response aniram received clarifies the first of those ambiguities.</p>
<p>I can firmly attest to the fact that you can only send in ACT scores and still be accepted. I had meager SAT (2070) but great ACT (34) and only sent in the ACT and was accepted regular decision.</p>