<p>On most pages for universities with standardized test requirements, it is said you are to either do the SAT with 2 SAT Subject Tests, or an ACT with writing test.</p>
<p>My question is, can I take the SAT and the ACT only, leaving out the subject tests? Or maybe SAT and ACT with writing? i could go as far as SAT, ACT with writing, and one subject test. I really want to dodge a second subject test.</p>
<p>Interpret the statement literally…“SAT with 2 SAT Subject Tests, <em>or</em> an ACT with writing test.” Of course you can do both if you really want to for some reason.</p>
<p>Also, it’s probably not a good idea to take exactly one subject test. You won’t be able to list it on your college app (you might still be able to send it), plus it costs more per test to take one. I would either take two subject tests or none.</p>
<p>If you take ACT with writing, you will have satisfied the standardized testing requirement for most colleges and universities. (A few highly selective ones will be exceptions.) After you have met the requirement, if you have any other scores that you’d like to send because you think they reflect well on you, you are free to send those too. (Maybe that’s a poor choice of words. College Board will charge you–so it won’t be free in that sense–but you are at liberty to send other test scores.) So, if you’ve really killed the SAT but not taken subject tests (or taken only one), you can absolutely send those scores to supplement the ACT scores.</p>
<p>Colleges which usually require two subject tests but state they accept the ACT in lieu of both the SAT and two subject tests will not consider an SAT at all if what you submit is the ACT and an SAT but no or only one subject test. Instead only the ACT will be considered in that situation.</p>