<p>Ha, ha, ImmanuelKant: I love mind games with admissions officers! Especially ones I can’t see and have never met! And especially mind games by proxy! 
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<p>But seriously, I don’t think that admissions officers read too fast to be affected by subliminal impressions. While Yale expresses no preference between the SAT and ACT, I think that would depend on the particular admissions officer reading the file, and on the circumstances of the applicant. Some of us (non-admissions officers) do prefer one test or the other. </p>
<p>And by the way, if you really are ImmanuelKant, why aren’t your sentences 500 words of densely written German, with at least six dependent clauses in each? (The irony of ImmanuelKant calling for keeping it simple just struck me.)</p>