SAT II Test Scores

JennyLeann · 10-02-2012, 08:02 PM

I took the ACT with writing and got a score that I am very happy with. BUT I also took a couple SAT II Subject tests that I wasn't very happy with. To be specific, I got a 720 in U.S. History and a 640 in Literature. Will Penn care at all about my SAT II Scores if I have a good ACT score? I did get a 36 in reading on the ACT so I would think that it would cancel my bad Literature score.

yoyo17 · 10-04-2012, 05:04 PM

I don't think it would necessarily "cancel out" your SAT II scores completely, but having a high ACT score would certainly provide a large boost. You should be fine, even if the Penn admissions readers can see your lower scores.

JennyLeann · 10-04-2012, 05:18 PM

Thanks! It doesn't seem like a lot of colleges require all scores like Penn does. I already sent in my scores but I wonder how they would know if a student didn't send in all their scores. I bet that some students haven't sent all of their scores in.

drac313 · 10-04-2012, 08:31 PM

It's not worth it to risk not sending all scores in because Penn already superscores anyway. They just want all scores because they don't want kids claiming they got a 2300....on the fifth time they took it.