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<p>I don’t think that is the implication, although my son is likely to take more than the four he has already taken. (We are a homeschooling family, and it’s fairly typical for homeschoolers aspiring to highly selective colleges to take a few more external tests than applicants from well known brick-and-mortar high schools.) I think the comment was made in the context of a lot of press reports decrying the SAT Reasoning Test and thus people in the audience possibly wondering if Harvard might go test-optional. </p>
<p>After edit: Considering the low degree of awareness of SAT Subject Tests in some parts of the country, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to hear that Harvard admits some students who didn’t gain peak scores on those tests–which Harvard does indeed require–just because the admission committee is aware that some students take those tests with inadequate preparation.</p>