Yale's New Standardized Tests Policy

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<p>Yale Admissions now state that if you submit the ACT, you do not need to submit SAT subject tests scores. If you submit the SAT, you must submit any two subject test scores. For those submitting ACT scores, will you also send SAT subject test scores? How do you think it will affect chances of admission, expecially for Early Action-Restrictive? </p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania and Brown also have this policy. Do you think the other Ivies and Stanford will eventually adopt this policy?</p>

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<p>…hasn’t it always been like this?</p>

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<p>no, i think they used to require 3 SAT subject tests…</p>

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<p>I thought that it has been this way.</p>

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<p>"no, i think they used to require 3 SAT subject tests… "</p>

<p>only harvard and formerly princeton required 3</p>

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<p>Yale has long accepted the ACT in lieu of SAT I plus two SAT Subject Tests. Nothing new about that. </p>

<p>What’s somewhat new are the rules on how scores must be reported to Yale. </p>

<p>[Instructions</a> for Reporting Your Scores | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/score_reporting.html]Instructions”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/score_reporting.html)</p>

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<p>That’s not new.</p>

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<p>^^What’s new is Yale’s response to Score Choice. They’re not accepting it. So if you’re sending any SAT scores, you must ask CB to send them all (same as before Score Choice). Also, if you’re sending ACT, you must have ACT send one score, and you must self-report all other ACT scores.</p>

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<p>Are there those that submit just ACT scores and get in? I ask because I’m applying SCEA.</p>

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<p>yes there are definitely those who submit ACT + writing and never send a single thing from the SAT and get in.</p>

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<p>What’s also new is that if you take the ACT you don’t have to submit ANY SAT results - which means no SAT IIs.</p>

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<p>^^ Desiw – Actually, Yale has allowed students to submit only the ACT for several years.</p>

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<p>Again, that’s not true (as about 10 people have said before on this thread).</p>