Colleges that Require, Recommend, or Seriously Consider SAT Subject Test Results

While most four-year colleges in the United States require that the scores from either the SAT or ACT be submitted as part of a prospective freshman’s application, only a small fraction of four-year colleges in the United States require, recommend, or seriously consider a prospective freshman’s performance on SAT Subject Tests when determining whether or not to accept such an applicant. Below is the list of colleges in the United States where SAT Subject Test scores are required, recommended, or seriously considered for first-year admission. Click on the college’s name to learn more about the college’s exact policy related to SAT Subject Tests – and please see recommended test prep books below this list of colleges.

Amherst College

Babson College

Barnard College

Bates College

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brown University

Bucknell University

California Institute of Technology

Carleton College

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

Claremont McKenna

Colby College

College of William & Mary

Colorado College

Columbia University

Connecticut College

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Davidson College

Duke University

Emory University

Franklin Olin College of Engineering

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Hamilton College

Harvard University

Harvey Mudd College

Ithaca College

Johns Hopkins University

Kenyon College

King’s College of London

Lafayette College

Macalester College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McGill University

Middlebury College

Mills College

New York University

Northwestern University

Oberlin College

Occidental College

Pomona College

Pratt Institute

Princeton University

Reed College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rice University

Scripps College

Smith College

Stanford University

Stevens Institute of Technology

Swarthmore College

The Cooper Union

Tufts University

Union College

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Merced

University of California, Riverside

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Chicago

University of Delaware

University of Georgia

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Rochester

University of Southern California

University of Toronto

University of Virginia

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Wake Forest University

Washington and Lee University

Washington University in St. Louis

Webb Institute

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Yale University

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