<p>My ACT is a lot better than my SAT score. I was sick the morning of my SAT and only scored a 1230 (CR+M) or 1790. My ACT is a 31, which is a lot better. A few schools ask for both test scores---if I neglect to send in my SAT score, is there any way for them to truly find out I took it? I know that sounds terrible to ask, but I really don't want my reach school to see it and I feel I am really on the cusp of getting in. </p>
<p>First, the only schools I know which require you to send both sets of scores are highly competitive and those scores would be on the low side for them. Second, the school may not find out. But if it does (like it’s listed on your HS transcript) any admission offer would be rescinded or, if discovered after you started attending, you could be thrown out. Would that be worth the risk?</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad may be right, but I do not think they would be able to find out nor they would care after you got in.</p>
<p>This doesn’t seem correct. If a school allows you send in SAT scores or ACT scores, or both, and offers you a spot based on you’re having done well on the test you chose to send, how could they rescind an offer based on learning you took the other test and didn’t do well and opted not to send in those other scores? Why would they care?</p>
<p>Because if they tell you to send the scores of every single test you took, and you only send one, saying that you only took that one, and they found out later that you took more than that one, you can get in trouble…</p>
<p>If the school requires you to send all your scores, send all your scores.</p>
<p>If the school doesn’t require you to send all your scores, then just send your ACT.</p>
<p>If you’re applying to schools with the common app, make two accounts. One with all your scores and one with just your ACT.</p>
<p>If a school explicitly requires you to “send the scores of every single test you took’” I guess you’d be correct. </p>
<p>That said, can you name some schools that require applicants to send in SAT scores in addition to ACT scores?</p>
<p>Ivy league, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford(minus subject test), Rice among others require that student send all standardized tests they’ve took from 9th to 12th grade. This is information you should see in the admissions section of the school’s website. </p>
<p>I just realized that the original poster’s question is can he safely/ethically omit sending the SAT to some unidentified schools that “ask for both test scores.” Reading if fundamental. Oops.</p>
<p>Thanks though for confirming that some schools ask both both scores, i.e. the Ivy League. </p>
<p>Doing some spot checking, though, it looks like that’s not universally true. For example, Yale requires you to send all your ACT scores, or all your SAT scores, but explicitly allows you to omit your SAT scores if you choose to use ACT scores, and vice verse:</p>
<p><a href=“Standardized Testing | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Standardized Testing | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions;
<p>At any rate, I fully agree with you that if the school REQUIRES all scores of one type, or all scores period, you run the risk if you don’t comply.</p>