<p>I’m SCEA at Yale, applying from the midwest with a 35 ACT. I’m quite happy with my ACT score but I was forced to take the SAT in October in order to qualify my status as a national merit scholar finalist. I ended up getting a 780 Writing, 770 Verbal, and 650 Math. When I got that math score I was a little confused because, well, I’m good at math so I requested a score report from the collegeboard. Turns out I bubbled in a column wrong on one of the math sections which dropped my score from a 790 to a 650. I obviously didn’t want Yale to see this score but they ended up glimpsing it when I submitted my Lit and U.S. History subject test scores. </p>
<p>Do you think this unusually low math score will count against me in the admissions process?</p>
<p>clearly couldn’t have gotten a 790 because the curve was -1 = 780.</p>
<p>anyway, most schools have an equivalence chart so they’ll obviously take your ACT over the SAT and SAT IIs. i’m in the same boat since the same thing happened (except with critical reading) so i guess my higher ACT will be used as well.</p>
<p>Hmmm, I didn’t think to check the answer report for the curve, I just looked inside my princeton review study guide to get an approximate score. Thanks for your feedback though, and sorry about your reading score.</p>