<p>Are there only a few schools that require this? I'm thinking Harvey Mudd, MIT, and Caltech.</p>
<p>Are there any other schools that require one math and one science SAT subject test?</p>
<p>You need to look at the requirements for admission to specific programs within the universities you’re considering.</p>
<p>In some instances, math and science subject tests are required for prospective engineering majors, but students who plan to major in other subjects have a broader choice of subject tests.</p>
<p>For example, here are the requirements for Cornell, taken off their Web site. <a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2014%20Freshman%20Admission%20Requirements.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2014%20Freshman%20Admission%20Requirements.pdf</a></p>
<p>You should be able to find similar information on every college’s Web site.</p>
<p>I agree you are best off to look at the school websites - Carnegie Mellon is another school where engineering and computer science require a math and science.</p>
<p>Mudd only requires Math II. My kid was accepted with Math II and Lit (both 800). Mudd is looking for students strong in both STEM and the humanities. Although I think you certainly can show that humanities interest in other ways than a subject test, so a science test would be okay there, too.</p>
<p>At Cal, subject tests are not required, but Math II and a science are recommended for applicants to the College of Chemistry or the College of Engineering.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the info on Mudd.</p>
<p>LVK, right. I know the subject tests are recommended but not required.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll go through the list of potential schools on my son’s list and see what each requires if he was going to major in computer engineering or electrical engineering…and that could change…</p>
<p>He’ll be able to take Math II and Literature but can’t seem to get his schedule worked out to where he’d be prepared enough to take the physics SAT II, which is what he’d want to take, before he’d be applying to schools next fall.</p>
<p>Of the 29 universities that actually require subject tests (and not just recommend them; see first column of the list here [Compass:</a> Admissions Requirements](<a href=“SAT Subject Test Requirements and Recommendations - Compass Education Group”>SAT Subject Test Requirements and Recommendations - Compass Education Group)), Caltech, MIT, Webb Institute and Franklin Olin are the only ones that require both a math and a science of all applicants. You mention Harvey Mudd which requires math level 2 but second one is applicant’s choice.</p>
<p>Others among the 29 require both a math and science for some majors such as engineering or science or even architecture: Carnegie Mellon (includes architecture); Columbia; Cornell; McGill (includes architecture). Duke requires a math for engineering and recommends a science for the same. Princeton and Penn state a preference but not an absolute requirement for a math and science for engineering.</p>
<p>There are also a number of schools such as Stanford and some of the UCs that recommend but do not require subject tests and recommend a math and science for engineering.</p>
<p>Are there any schools that require 3, or require that one of 2 be NOT math or science? if D can get away with Math 2 and Chem, that would be nice.</p>
<p>According to that Compass link, many, many schools will accept the ACT w/Writing instead of Subject tests.</p>
<p>Since you’re homeschooling, it may benefit your kid to do more than the minimum so colleges have some point of comparison. (And the standards are so variable at CCs across the country that unless that college has a relationship with that CC, a CC course doesn’t give a standard point of comparison.)</p>
<p>Well, this son isn’t shooting for top schools unless I see a real jump in scores. He’s faced many health challenges that slowed his academic progress and he’s only coming up for air, so to speak, this year. He’s come a very, very long way from the bottom. I definitely want to give him space and freedom to enjoy what he’s learning, but if he really wants to “go for it”, I want to help him keep his options open. Don’t know if that makes sense.</p>
<p>He is not like my oldest son, a sophomore at MIT, in any way except that he’s very intelligent, too.</p>
<p>My S applied as an engineering major to our state university that’s known for engineering.
No subject tests required. That was eight years ago. May have changed but kind of doubt it.</p>
<p>As to OHmomof2’s question on number of tests required: other than for home school applicants, there is no college that requires more than two subject tests. There are two colleges that do not require subject tests but recommend three: Johns Hopkins and Georgetown. In Georgetown’s case it is a very strong recommendation in that the applicant is supposed to explain in the application why he does not have three if he has less than three. Also, there are a small number of colleges, such as NYU and Middlebury for which you can choose to submit three subject tests in lieu of submitting any SAT or ACT.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you can meet the requirement for two tests for any college and any major by submitting math 2 and a science. The only issue to consider is that some of those colleges do recommend (but do not require) that one of your tests be in something that is close to your chosen major. </p>
<p>There is mention above about home school students. Requirements relating to them them vary including that many colleges, which do not require subject tests in general, do require them for home schooled applicants and you will find colleges that want at least three tests from such applicants and math is often one of them.</p>
<p>In relation to engineering and state colleges, there is in fact no public university that requires subject tests and most won’t even consider subject tests if provided. The exception would be for home schooled who are often required to submit subject tests. Some publics do recommend or consider subject tests (such as UVa, NC, UTex, some of the UCs and SUNY’s, Gtech).</p>
<p>Thank you drusba, very helpful.</p>
<p>The (competitive) Integrated Science Program at Northwestern asks for Math, Chem and Physics subject tests (!) but accepts substitutes, as noted:</p>
<p>[Integrated</a> Science Program – Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences: Northwestern University](<a href=“FAQ: Integrated Science Program - Northwestern University”>FAQ: Integrated Science Program - Northwestern University)</p>
<p>You also need to check which science test - I know a few students who were tripped up because Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science wanted Chem or Physics not Biology.</p>
<p>We tell kids, if the college “recommends” or “strongly recommends” certain subject tests, that for all intents and purposes a typical middle class student needs to treat it as a requirement.</p>
<p>Since we are homeschoolers (though here on CC, we’re not “typical” middle class; we’d be lower class here), it would be best for my son to have three subject tests. Given our budget problems in California and the fact that there aren’t community college classes in the summer nearby, my son will self-study for the physics SAT II exam next summer rather than take a class. Then in the fall, he can take one semester of physics (which won’t cover all the topics on the exam) in the fall and be ready to take the exam next Nov. or Dec.</p>