help a rising junior get into Yale?

entomom
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:22:11 +0000

^^^Thanks gibby!

You’re right, self-reporting is the same for both. I was thinking of sending official score reports, that’s where the ACT differs since they charge for sending scores for different sittings.

While you stated it correctly in your first sentence, Y got it wrong in the quote from the webpage you cited, it should be “report” rather than “send”. When you go to the actual FAQs, they state it correctly:

http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/standardized-testing



To report ACT results, please ask ACT to send official results from at least one test directly to Yale, and self-report all your other available ACT results when you file your Yale Supplement to the Common Application.





We have taken this approach because there is a difference between the reporting cost of SAT and ACT results. The College Board will send a cumulative record of all SAT Reasoning and SAT Subject tests for one fee. For a similar fee, the ACT will send results for only one test date. Because we do not want students reporting ACTs to incur excessive costs, we require them to send one official ACT score report and permit them to self-report all other ACT results. We will confirm self-reported test results if we feel it to be necessary.