<p>As a sophomore with good grades and diverse life experiences, I am looking forward </p>
<p>transferring to few top U.S schools(Cornell, Brown, WashU St.Louis, Carnegie Mellon). </p>
<p>The reason selected those school are due to the fact that I lack SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>I wander if it is possible to convince Rice(or other schools with the same requirements) </p>
<p>admission councilors to review my application without those scores, since the country I </p>
<p>graduated from high school never required them.</p>
<p>Of course, I will be able to take them, but that will not allow me to apply for the spring semester, since the deadline for submitting those scores had passed?</p>
<p>by the way, if SAT’s are just markers for one’s performance at a college, then if a transfer student already in college should not have to take it since their gpa is the determinent of their college performance.
But then…some colleges are harder than others…but what if the OP goes to a nationally renowned college? </p>
<p>I was just thinking that SAT are just tests that estimate an incoming freshman’s ability to handle college coursework. So then why should colleges request transfer students their SAT scores? Is there another reason behind it? I was just rhetorically asking myself this, but it would be great to know.</p>
<p>If a student’s SAT score was way below what a school he or she is trying to transfer to would have considered for freshman admission, and the student then went to the University of Nowhere at Middle and did exceptionally well, the admissions office is not going to think “this student proved the SAT wrong,” they’re going to think, “are we sure this student could be successful here?”</p>