SAT scores sent to Yale

[Quetzalcoatl]

<p>Does Yale consider the best of all scores sent to it?</p>

[entomom]

<p>[Instructions</a> for Reporting Your Scores | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/score_reporting.html]Instructions”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/score_reporting.html)</p>

[Quetzalcoatl]

<p>Therefore, this means that they consider all test scores or highest scores. I called Yale once and the representative said that “Highest scores”</p>

[mifune]

<p>Yale, I would firmly believe, does superscore (evaluates the higest section scores across all test dates) even despite its policy of having students submit all scores.</p>

[entomom]

<p>From the link I provided:</p>

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In some cases an applicant’s testing history can provide useful contextual information to the admissions committee. Although the committee works with summary information that focuses attention on the highest officially reported scores you attained on each section of the SAT I, the highest scores on individual subject tests and/or the highest ACT composite score, committee members and the readers of your application will have access to a full history of all officially reported scores.

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<p>I read this as:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>They superscore (“highest oficially reported scores you attained on each section of the SAT I”).</p></li>
<li><p>But they also take this in context of your entire testing history. For instance a 2350 attained from a single sitting may be considered differently than a 2350 superscored for a candidate who tested 5 times.</p></li>
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<p>Brenzel alludes to this here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/01/16/no-choice-on-scores/[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/01/16/no-choice-on-scores/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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When asked whether Yale looks only at a student’s best standardized testing scores, Brenzel said in an e-mail: “We do give primary consideration to the top scores attained. It can be helpful, though, to know how many times it took to achieve those scores.”</p>

<p>He added that a large number of testing sittings will not necessarily have a positive or negative impact on a student’s application. Rather, each piece of information in an applicant’s file is considered in the context of all other information about him or her, Brenzel said.

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[Quetzalcoatl]

<p>Thank you Mifune and Entomom, I feel much better</p>