<p>My son took three SAT subject tests: Math II 800, Biology 770, and History 750. He is applying for Duke ED (only two subject test required). We don't know which looks better: all three subjects or just Math and Biology? Thanks.</p>
<p>Send them all - they are all excellent scores and it’s good to show he’s not just a math and science guy.</p>
<p>But it does beg the question at what point is a score too low and what would be too low for various levels of schools? For example my son took Biology E one time and Biology M the other - with scores 10 or 20 points apart -both in the low 700s. Would any school notice that he did two different versions and would they care? How about a score of 700 on a literature test when it would be one beyond the minimum? I’d guess for many schools anything over 700 should be sent, but for others you might not bother if it was an extra.</p>
<p>Agree with mathmom. Send them all.</p>
<p>Thanks, my wife thought the 750 is not as good as other two and would not help. I thought sending them all would not hurt.</p>
<p>It won’t hurt. 750 is a very fine history score for a math and science kid.</p>
<p>mathmom, I think I agree that for a very selective school, an extra score below 700 wouldn’t be worth much. But, it is hard to imagine an adcom recoiling in horror at the sight of a 680 on an exam that wasn’t required, especially if the rest of the formal transcript indicated competence or better in that subject.</p>
<p>We probably all overthink these things.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, adcoms look at scores as “tranches” of fifty, so 750 and 800 are practically the same as far as they’re concerned. The exception are the “psychological thresholds” such as 700 or 750. In other words, a 700 is far better than 680, whereas 720 would not be deemed better than 700, indeed, would probably count the same.</p>
<p>From what I have been reading, a lot of schools want them all now a days. But I agree with the others here that are saying that it won’t hurt your son to send them all in his case.</p>
<p>cpt, from my reading only Yale says send all the SAT2s. The schools say things like “It is Tufts’ longstanding admissions policy to use a student’s highest score for each section of the SAT (Critical Reasoning, Math and Writing) regardless of the test date. Accordingly, Tufts asks applicants to submit all SAT testing from all test dates. The University will continue to use the highest combination of SAT section score (from one or multiple test dates) in rendering each admission decision.” There’s another part of the Tufts testing page where they address SAT subject tests (they have different requirements depending on whether you are going into engineering or not). It really sounds to me like Score Choice is only about the SAT1 as far as most schools are concerned.</p>
<p>A top 20 LAC we visited last month said the SAT subject tests for accepted students were within the range of 650-750. I know that’s a big range, but clearly some students with high 600s (on the subject tests) were accepted. I think they recognized the subject tests are self-selecting so the curves will tend to be tougher.</p>