I am an international applicant and I have taken the November SAT and received 800 on all three subject tests I took (Math 2, Chemistry and French With Listening). I want to submit these scores to all schools I’m applying to, but I would like to know if it could be seen as a bad thing to submit a score the school doesn’t ask for, especially to technical schools such as MIT that specifically require one Math test and one Science test. If it is preferable to send only two, which ones should I send?
Please consider that:
–> My intended major is either Chemistry or Biomolecular/Chemical Engineering.
–> I’m a silver medalist at the International Chemistry Olympiad, so it would be kind of “expected” for me to get an 800 on the Chemistry test and thus it doesn’t add much to my application.
–> I have learned French, German and Russian by myself and it’s something I’m really passionate about and I would like to highlight that. I want to minor in a related field, such as Linguistics or Slavic Languages.
No, it’s good, because your third test provides insight into what you know and like academically. Submit all three.
You can submit an extra subject test score than required and it will cause no harm. Whether it will help at all just depends. For example, colleges that require or recommend two subject tests most often consider the highest two and ignore the others (and the highest two in the required subjects if there are specified subjects like MIT). Two, Princeton and Harvard, say the will primarily consider the highest two submitted but may give some consideration to others. Also at some colleges, adding a high score language test, though it may not be used to determine admission, it might be used to determine placement in language courses after admission, allowing you to complete a college-level language requirement with fewer college courses.
Thanks for the answers 