<p>Hi! I'm applying Early Action to Stanford and had a question about what subject tests scores y'all think I should send in. Stanford allows you to select what subject test scores to send (unlike their requirements for the act and sat) and requires a total of at least two scores to be sent. I have taken four different subject tests and received the following scores: Biology-760, US History 770, Literature 640, and World History 740. All subject tests were taken June 2014 except for World History which was taken June 2013. I am a prospective biology major.</p>
<p>Clearly I should probably send in the 770 and 760, and not the 640, but should I also send in the third 740 even though it's not requires. A 740 is an amazing score, but it's not as good as a 760 or 770 and isn't required. Should I still send it in as it shows that I took more subject tests and performed well (World History was as a sophomore as opposed to the end of Junior year). Or is the slightly lower score just not that beneficial when it's not required or even recommended necessarily?</p>
<p>Thanks for your time and input, I appreciate it!</p>
<p>If you want to send in 3, go ahead. However, since 2 of those are history, I’m not sure that there is any benefit. Your call.</p>
<p>I would send the Bio and both History scores to Stanford. I would only send the 640 in Literature if the grade you received in that class was quite low and it was non-honors. In that case, if the readers are reading carefully, they might see the score with the grade as an indication that the standards at your school were relatively high, at least in that class.</p>
<p>I found this thread while looking to see if a question I have has already been answered. Stanford is thankfully very clear that they welcome score choice for the subject tests but not for the SAT reasoning test or ACT. Other schools often say that they do not want applicants to use score choice but are not clear if this also applies to subject tests. The college boards site makes no distinction either and does not remind applicants of a schools policy if they start to select score choice for subject tests.</p>
<p>Has anyone here put together or found a list of schools that are clear that they do not want applicants to use score choice with subject tests? </p>
<p>I guess it would be really nice to have a list of schools in several categories
1- forbid score choice for the SAT reasoning tests and for the subject tests
2- forbid score choice for the SAT and make no mention of the subject tests
3- forbid score choice for the reasoning test but allow it for the subject tests
4- discourage score choice
5- welcome score choice</p>
<p>The college board site is very useful for quickly identifying schools in categories 4 or 5 above, but makes no distinction between categories 1, 2, and 3 above.</p>
<p>Can anyone provide or point me towards some data on schools that clearly prohibit score choice with subject tests?</p>
<p>This is indeed confusing at many schools. At Cornell’s own admissions site, they’re admissions reps tell some applicants that they can choose which subject tests to report or may choose to report none at all. They then tell other applicants that they are required to submit all subject tests scores.</p>
<p><a href=“https://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2013/11/07/sat-subject-tests/”>https://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2013/11/07/sat-subject-tests/</a></p>
<p>Stanford and U Penn are the only schools I’ve found that very clearly welcome score choice for the subject tests but not for the reasoning test.</p>
<p>Yale is the only school I’ve found (possibly Harvey Mudd according to an old catalogue but not their admissions site) that very clearly says applicants are required to submit all subject tests scores. (Actually Yale says this is only if the applicants sends and SAT scores.)</p>
<p>Tufts, Rice, and Cornell are unclear on whether they allow score choice for subject tests.</p>
<p>I’d love to know what others have found.</p>
<p>whoaa! a 760 in biology?! i wrote the sat biology test in june and got a 720. is that good enough? i might be doing a biology major so do you think i should try writing it again? which books did u use to study for it?</p>