<p>What are some really good schools that don't require SAT subject tests?</p>
<p>I know that UChicago and WUSTL don't, but what are some more schools of similar quality that don't? If they don't recommend them that would be even better. thanks</p>
<p>There's a list somewhere on this forum of schools that require them. Here's another list:
Ivy</a> West: SAT Subject Tests Requirements</p>
<p>Grinnell, a top LAC, does not require or recommend SAT IIs. I'm guessing that because their mid-western rural location is off-putting to some, they don't want to raise additional barriers, especially when they get so much other information from you. But it's highly respected academically-home to many future Phds-and our S loves it. He didn't take a single SAT II and applied ED there.</p>
<p>Wake Forest, Bowdoin, Holy Cross</p>
<p>I think there are many "good" schools that don't require them if you take the ACT. I believe "compass" has a listing like that.</p>
<p>My D is applying to Swarthmore, Amherst, Cornell (CALS or ILR), Lehigh, Brown and Dickinson. None require SAT IIs if you take the ACT with the writing component. So she's taking the ACT instead of the SATI + SATIIs.</p>
<p>DON’T Require subject tests: NYU, Northwestern, Drexel, UConn, Villanova</p>
<p>Bard doesn’t require any SATs.</p>
<p>[SAT/ACT</a> Optional 4-Year Universities | FairTest](<a href=“http://fairtest.org/university/optional]SAT/ACT”>ACT/SAT Optional List - Fairtest)</p>
<p>Holy Cross and Bowdoin are SAT optional.</p>
<p>I just read your post more accurately. I see you are just asking about subject tests! University of Virginia does not require subject tests (they do strongly recommend them, but they are NOT required).</p>
<p>Berkeley and UCLA no longer require them.</p>
<p>Among Ivies, Yale, Brown, and Penn do not require SAT subject tests if you submit the ACT in lieu of the SAT Reasoning Test. Others in this category include Duke, Rice, Tufts, Boston College, Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Wellesley, Vassar, Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard, and probably many more.</p>
<p>The only two top universities do not require or recommend (read between the lines!) the SAT subject tests are the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>The OP asked this question 3 years ago. While it is good info for today’s applicants we should probably not address the OP’s questions directly.</p>
<p>Erins dad:</p>
<p>True, that. But perhaps ambitious was looking for current answers. Its a relevant question. And 99 percent of the threads here on CC are repeated year after year after year, correct?</p>
<p>27 of the 28 Jesuit Schools. (Georgetown I think requires them) If you take a Subject Test, they will look at it, and perhaps give you advanced placement for example in a language. But otherwise not needed. </p>
<p>Most schools prefer you to take AP courses and the AP exams/</p>
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<p>Yes and no. Highly selective schools prefer that you take the most challenging HS curriculum, which means if your school offers AP classes you should take as many as you reasonably can. But very few, if any, schools count AP test scores as admission credentials. And the AP tests are in any event graded on a crude 5-point scale, which doesn’t necessarily tell you much. Most schools use them only for placement purposes, or at most to grant college credit for some AP work in HS. Don’t make the mistake of thinking if you have good AP test scores your SAT Subject Tests won’t matter. That’s just wrong all around.</p>