<p>I have heard that the Math and English sub-scores are the most important for most admissions, especially engineering, so should I send my 31 with a higher math score, or a 32 with a low math score? </p>
<p>I have a 4.0 UW GPA with a large focus on AP Math and science courses.</p>
<p>I plan on applying to:
Rice U (first choice)
Cornell (engineering department)
Texas U at Austin (engineering department)
Vanderbilt
Tulane
Carnegie Mellon College
Georgia Tech
UC berkely (engineering department)
Cal Tech (engineering department)
Stanford (just in case i get lucky?)</p>
<p>if any of you have experience with these particular schools' admissions processes, which should I send to each school?
or should I send both?</p>
<p>On a side note, Are most of these schools within a reasonable reach of my test scores considering my GPA?</p>
<p>I could not find many posts here about extremely variant sub-scores.</p>
<p>The obvious solution is to submit both scores. For those school who superscore or consider individual subscores in others ways, it can only help you.</p>
<p>Your first choice is Rice, and I found this:
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<p>Cal Tech says this:
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<p>I really don’t see any downside in submitting both to all schools, regardless. The fact that you were able to get high scores says something. That doesn’t happen by accident or chance. You don’t fail “up”, it takes a certain ability to get those 34+ subsections.</p>
<p>Thank you both. I am not particularly knowledgeable about applying to selective schools. My rural community does not send many students out of state, so nobody near me can offer details of their experiences, including my counselor. I have been reading on these forums for the past few weeks, though.</p>
<p>My primary concern was that my lower scores on either test would hurt me overall. Since that does not appear to be the case, I am much less apprehensive about my admissions chances. </p>
<p>You superscore to a 34- awesome job!! Even if a school doesn’t’ “officially” superscore they will still do the math and know that you tested exceptionally well considering the context of your rural school (I assume it doesn’t build test prep into the curriculum!). The admissions process is tough on the kids coming from school districts that aren’t used to preparing students for selective out of state college applications. As you mentioned there is minimal if any guidance. I’m glad you asked your question, it would have been a shame to pick only one and miss out submitting both!</p>
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