Sending scores

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<li><p>How are colleges gonna see your SAT/ACT scores - by sending them through the SAT/ACT companies' websites or by your Common App? Because there's a section in the Common App. where it asks you to list your scores. This is kinda important because I wanna submit my ACT, not SAT nor my Subject tests (the colleges I'm applying to accept the ACT instead of SAT & Subjects), and I'm just confused because I might have to list them on my application.</p></li>
<li><p>If I submit my ACT and subject tests, do I have to submit my SAT as well? If not, do you recommend submitting my subjects?</p></li>
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<p>You obviously know some colleges require all scores. However, what any particular college means by all scores varies and thus whether you must submit SAT scores along with others requires you to review the particular colleges’ rules. For example, Yale is one of those colleges that accepts ACT in lieu of both SAT and SAT IIs and is also an all scores college. However, it requires you to submit either all ACT scores or, alternatively, all SAT and SAT II scores. It does not permit submitting SAT II scores and withholding the SAT scores. In fact, with Yale, and colleges in general that take the ACT in lieu of both the SAT and SAT IIs, what you are contemplating is a useless act because the SAT IIs will not be considered at all if you submit ACT and not SAT because they consider the SAT IIs to be part of only the SAT package.</p>

<p>Does what you suggested only apply to Yale or also to most other colleges that take the ACT in lieu of SAT & SAT IIs?</p>

<p>Most but not all. For instance, Dartmouth requires 2 Subject tests w/either the ACT or SAT:</p>

<p><a href=“Home | Dartmouth Admissions”>Home | Dartmouth Admissions;

<p>Alright. So I just withhold my subject tests if I decide to submit my ACT?</p>

<p>You do whatever the college’s website tells you to do. </p>

<p>There are some schools that require all testing that you have done to be sent and there are others that give you choice–go to the primary source, the college website.</p>