Relatively low SAT score vs high ACT score

Test Preparation
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<p>I know this has been discussed in the past, but I'd really like to make a new thread that applies to my situation and possibly for others:</p>

<p>Currently I'm a junior, and I took the SAT II Bio M and scored an 800, which is great, but then I took the SAT I and scored 1980. Later I took the ACT as a practice test on my own and found that I scored 34. So I'm thinking, if I do well on the ACT (34-35), and assuming I do well on several other subject tests, and send in my bad 1980 score, would colleges look down upon the bad SAT I score and ignore my good scores? I mean I'm sure they won't ignore them, but I have a feeling that the low score will definitely influence the admissions process in a negative way :( I'm wondering whether that 1980 has left me without any chance of getting in to an ivy league or a top private school. </p>

<p>Many thanks!</p>

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<p>You do not have an ACT score that is better than SAT yet but assuming that occurs:</p>

<p>(a) If you send a college both ACT and SAT, it will use for admission the one it believes is higher.</p>

<p>(b) There are colleges that require you to send all scores, However, majority do not and thus you need not even send the lower SAT to those.</p>

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<p>^The above isn’t true. All colleges accept either the ACT or SAT (one or the other).</p>

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<p>Subject tests and SAT reasoning are two differnet things.
You can just send in your ACT and the subject tests only. Plenty of people do that.</p>

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<p>You must check colleges particular rules before relying on above because what they say is not universal There are colleges that require you to send all SAT scores if you send and want to rely at all on SAT IIs and that is even if you send ACT. Those include Brown, Yale,and Penn.</p>

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According to the definition of score choice, breaking up a subject test is score choice if you took mutiple tests on a single day. Sending which sittings you want is not score choice, so someone can send subject tests with an ACT and not a SAT. </p>

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<p>If you do better on the ACT than the SAT, just send the ACT and your subject test scores.</p>

<p>Even if you do send all of them, the colleges will pick the ones they feel are your best scores.</p>

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<p>I will try to explain further:</p>

<p>At Yale, Penn, and Brown and numerous others, you have your choice of sending SATs and SAT IIs or all ACTs. They evaluate admission based on the SATs plus SAT IIs OR the ACT in lieu of both of those. Thus sending ACT plus two SAT IIs will result in only your ACT being considered. If you want SAT IIs considered you must send SATs to those schools.</p>

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<p>I did really well on my ACT and only okay on my SAT, so I sent only my ACT… all of the college reps I worked with said that was perfect! They said it was better to send just the ACT instead of high ACT and ok SAT because then colleges might think that ACT was a fluke instead of the other way around.</p>

<p>You want to show colleges that you’re awesome. Not that you’re somewhat awesome and somewhat ok.</p>

<p>Does that make sense?</p>