I know Penn (my #1) requires all testing history be sent, including SAT IIs. What other prestigious schools do so? Please comment whether a school requires all, some, or none
Yale does, Harvard, MIT and Caltech dont
That site provided above for College Board’s list of colleges and testing policies, http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf, needs to be reviewed with a very large grain of salt. It purports to provide a list a lot of colleges that supposedly have a rule that you submit “all scores.” First, that rule is referring to SAT and not any other tests. Second, the list is from 2012 and some of those listed as having all scores rules have since gone to allowing you to send whatever you want to send, Third, it lists a lot of schools you likely never even heard of, including many regional and community colleges, as “all scores” colleges which never even had an all scores rule and many of them do not even require test scores for admission.
Moreover, it also lists many colleges that have at least some national recognition as being “all scores” colleges, which also appear to have no all scores rule and accept score choice: Carnegie Mellon, Colgate, Cooper Union, all the CUNY’s, the Citadel, Duquesne, George Washington, Macalester, McGill, Quinipiac, Scripps, Steson, Temple U, Texas A&M, University of Texas, University of Maryland, University of South Carolina, University of Louisiana, and University of Colorado (that last simply says you should send all SAT or ACT scores because it superscores those tests but that does not appear to state any requirement that you do so).
Once you eliminate the false imformation, it appears there are only a small number of colleges that have any rule that requires you to submit “all scores” and what they actually require varies. The rules for colleges with national status from the CB list shown as having an “all scores” rule and actually having one are:
UPenn: requires all SAT, all ACT, and all SAT subject tests
Georgetown: all SAT, all ACT, and all SAT subject tests. (Upenn and Georgetown appear to be the only two colleges that require all of everything.)
Yale: all SAT and all subject tests, or, alternatively to both of those, all ACTs
Cornell: until two years ago, it required all SATs, all SAT subject tests, and all ACTs. Since then it has rewritten its policy and appears to have intentionally made it ambiguous; it seems to require all SAT and all subject tests and also requires all ACT if you send ACT, but you may not have send any ACT if you you want to rely on SAT. (Ivies other than Yale, Cornell, and Penn, allow you to send tests you want to send)
Stanford: all SAT’s and all ACT’s, but can send whatever SAT subject tests you desire to send
UC’s: ambiguous; require all SATs if you send SAT but do not appear to actually require all ACT’s or SAT subject tests.
Barnard College: ambiguous; Barnard claims its rule is “simple.” More likely it is just written by simpletons. Bernard is one of those colleges that accepts ACT in lieu of both SAT and SAT subject tests. However, its all scores rule may require all SATs or all ACTs, or possibly all SATs and all ACTs, and may or may not require all subject tersts. Noteworthy is that Barnard is tied to Columbia University, which used to require all scores of all tests, but abolished that rule completely in 2012 and now accepts score choice.
Rice: requires all SATs but you can send ACTs and subject tests you want to send.
Tufts: requires all SAT scores if you submit SAT; no such requirement for ACT or subject tests.
Harvey Mudd: all SAT or all ACT, and all SAT subject tests
Pomona: ambiguous; requires all SAT if you send SAT; requires all ACT if you send ACT; but not clear on whether you have to send all of both or all subject tests
Syracuse: all SAT scores, no such rule for ACT (subject tests are not even considered for admission)
Thanks a lot!! I’ll prob be applying to penn, Michigan, Cornell, harvard, mit, Columbia, Stanford, UF, CMU, yale