<p>Yale is my dream school, and I will be applying... quite soon! Gosh, that is scary.</p>
<p>I'm taking the U.S. History, World History, and Math II subject tests tomorrow. I shouldn't have even signed up for World History (should've done it last year), and I am iffy on U.S. History and Math (should've done it last year as well). However, if I do well on, say, only math, I was going to fill up the other requirement with Korean, which I heard was a breeze.</p>
<p>Will admissions look badly upon that? (Has anyone done it themselves?) I mean, obviously it won't look good, but will it be a huge negative, do you think? Am I even allowed to do that? I heard somewhere that they don't acknowledge the score for native speakers...</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't even understand the point of these exams. They are so irksome...</p>
<p>I feel like I may be asking the wrong forum, but I would appreciate it if you could give me some answers. :)</p>
<p>I think I can safely say that a language subject test taken by a native speaker would at best be ignored by any admissions committee. At worst, it would be a negative.</p>
<p>The point of the Subject tests is to fill a hole the SAT was deliberately designed to avoid: mastery of content. These and AP/IB exams are the only tool admissions committees for acquiring a measure of this skill for SAT-only applicants. However, because the ACT is viewed as including the content dimension, Subject exams are not required by Yale when it is submitted in lieu of the SAT. That would be an alternative for you to consider.</p>
<p>Yale requires you to send all your scores for SAT or ACT. No one seems to have a good answer if that means a requirement to send 5 ifferent subject scores even though Yale needs only two subjects. It is a given that if you take the same subject test three times, Yale wants to see all three scores but since they require only two subjects, it is not clear whether you be forced to send all the subjects you take.</p>
Just to clarify: this is true as long as the word “or” is paid attention to. Any tester who has taken tests from both the College Board and the ACT can choose which set of scores to submit. If you determine your ACT scores are stronger, for example, you may send all and only those scores. You can also choose to send both sets of scores, in which case you are obligated to send all of them.</p>
<p>Descartesz - If the requirement is only two subject tests and they take 4 and bomb one, are they obligated to report all 4? I really would like to see that clarified.</p>
<p>I am open to correction but I believe that if you choose to fulfill the SAT requirements over the ACT, Yale wants to see all scores taken while in high school sent to them. In fact I think they are quite clear about this. How they are regarded by the admissions committee is unknown to me. Will they simply consider the two highest? Not clear, although they say this:</p>
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<p>From this I take it they effectively “superscore” both the SAT comprehension and subject tests. Perhaps someone else will be able to shed more light.</p>
<p>I see, thank you guys! I took the SAT IIs last week, and will get the scores in about ten days. I flaked out and took chemistry instead of WH, which surprisingly, was easy. I should’ve studied for that, uff. I don’t think I did too badly; hopefully I won’t have to worry about scores!</p>
<p>I would think that they would note the lower scores along with the good ones. I mean, why ask for the testing history if they do not care about it? I guess that could be necessary. I’ve heard of people studying intensively for a section of the SAT I each time they take the test then superscore for a 2300, etc. etc., so I guess they want to prevent something like that from happening… or something!</p>