<p>I am a Chinese female living on the Eastern coast (where the SATs are preferred, gasp!)</p>
<p>SAT (three times, so I can't retake) highest: 670 CR, 800 M, 800 W with a 12 essay = 2270 total, since Yale doesn't accept score choice I'm not submitting this.</p>
<p>ACT (one time--is there any way I can show that I've only taken it once?): 35 composite; 36 English, 35 math, 33 reading, 36 science, 9 essay</p>
<p>SAT IIs: USH 760, Chemistry 770, Math I 750, I'm taking Math II in November with Chinese. Not submitting either.</p>
<p>Yes, I know that there are many other factors that come into play with the admissions process, but just based on test scores alone, how much would sending the SATs (three times, and still a 670 ouch) hurt me, and how much would just sending in the ACTs (but i live in the east...) hurt me?</p>
<p>Also, if two of my uncles went to Yale for undergrad, is there anyway I can show this on my application? Would this help at all?</p>
<p>hmm… I would submit both the SAT and ACT as long as one of the SATs you took doesn’t have one extremely low score. The way it works is that your admissions officer will take the highest in each section and only show that to the committee when he / she is representing you. So, the only score that will matter is the highest in each section.</p>
<p>And yes, you can show all relatives who attended Yale (including uncles) on the Yale Supplemental app.</p>
<p>I think the ACT alone is more impressive than any extra value you would get out of sending the SAT. The only problem is that this prevents Yale seeing your strong SAT II scores. My D is facing the same problem, with the same ACT score you have. It’s a dilemma, but she might just forego the value of the SAT II’s in order to keep the testing record very simple and strong.</p>
<p>Yale’s website says it will ask students to self-report if they’ve taken the ACT more than once, so you’ll be able to indicate that you didn’t take it a second time.</p>
<p>You seem very set on not sending your SAT scores already; however I would suggest sending them. It’s not like you had bad scores and the better picture the admissions committee has of you, the more likely you are to get favorable attention when the stats are strong. By not sending your scores, the committee will know you probably did not send them because you thought they were not up to par (esp. because as you said the SAT are preferred where you live)… this could give your application a negative light.</p>
<p>Disagree with mythbuster. My D had better ACT than SAT’s, submitted the ACT only and was admitted without any (at least apparent) pejorative implication from not submitting SAT’s. To the contrary, in the Yale admissions world where the adcoms are deluged with data, submitting one clear excellent result that responds explicity to the Yale request (which specifically welcomes ACT only as an alternative) probably trumps a compendium of test data that requires weighing and interpretation.</p>