Colleges That Require SAT Subject Tests

Colleges That Require Or Recommend SAT Subject Tests

The following is a list of colleges in the U.S. and Canada that require or recommend students to submit SAT Subject Tests for the 2007-2008 year. Also included are schools that list them as optional. The list is organized by state or province.

This list is meant as a starting point. You should consult with each individual college for exact requirements.

Alberta

University of Alberta (recommended)

California

California Institute of Technology (must take Math Level 2 and either Physics, Chemistry or Biology)

Chapman University (recommended)

Claremont McKenna College (recommended)

Deep Springs College (recommended)

Harvey Mudd College (must take Math Level 2 and one additional)

Marymount College (recommended)

Mills College (recommended)

Occidental College (recommended)

Pitzer College (recommended unless student is in top 10% of class or has GPA higher than 3.5 on 4.0 scale)

Pomona College (2 Subject Tests or may sumbit ACT instead)

Scripps College (recommended)

Stanford University (recommended)

University of Southern California (USC) (recommended)

University of the Pacific (recommended)

For all University of California campuses listed below 2 Subject Tests are required and Math Level 1 may NOT be used:

UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles (UCLA), UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz

Connecticut

Connecticut College (2 Subject Tests or ACT required)

Fairfield University (optional - will consider if submitted)

Trinity College (requires either ACT, SAT or 3 Subject Tests)

Wesleyan University (2 Subject Tests or ACT instead)

Yale University (2 Subject Tests or ACT instead)

Delaware

University of Delaware (recommended)

District of Columbia

American University (recommended)

Catholic University of America (consult proposed major for requirements)

George Washington University (required for accelerated degree programs, recommended for all others)

Georgetown University (requires 3 Subject Tests)

Howard University (recommended)

Florida

University of Miami (required for dual degree programs, accelerated programs and Honors Medicine program)

Georgia

Clark Atlanta University (recommended) Emory University (recommended) University of Georgia (recommended)

Illinois

Northwestern University (3 required for Integrated Science Program; 2 required of Honors Program in Medical Education; recommended for all others)

Indiana

Indiana University at Bloomington (recommended)

University of Notre Dame (required in French, Spanish, German and/or Italian if will continue taking language at ND; others will be considered if submitted)

Maine

Bates College (otional-will be considered if submitted)

Bowdoin College (optional-will be considered if submitted)

Maryland

Goucher College (optional-will be considered if submitted)

Johns Hopkins University (3 recommended)

Massachusetts

Amherst College (2 Subject Tests or ACT instead)

Babson College (recommended)

Boston College (2 required or ACT instead)

Boston University (2 required or ACT instead)

Brandeis University (2 required or ACT instead)

College of the Holy Cross (optional-will consider if submitted)

Franklin Olin College of Engineering (Math Level 1 or 2 and either Biology, Chemistry or Physics)

Hampshire College (optional-will consider if submitted)

Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (3 required)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1 Math, 1 Science required)

Smith College (recommended)

Tufts University (2 required or ACT instead)

Wellesley College (2 required or ACT instead)

Wheaton College (optional-will consider if submitted)

Williams College (2 required)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (recommended)

Michigan

Calvin College (recommended)

Hillsdale College (recommended)

Minnesota

Carleton College (recommended)

Montana

University of Great Falls (recommended)

Nevada

Deep Springs College (recommended)

New Hampshire

Dartmouth (2 required)

New Jersey

Princeton University (3 required)

Stevens Institute of Technology (required for accelerated and dual degree programs; recommended for all others)

New York

Barnard College (2 required or ACT instead)

City University of New York, Brooklyn (required for Honors and some scholarships)

City University of New York, Queens College (recommended for Honors)

Clarkson University (recommended)

Columbia University and Columbia College (2 required)

Cooper Union (required for Engineering)

Cornell University (required or recommended based on program)

Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester (recommended)

Fordham University (recommended)

Hamilton College (3 required or other options)

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (optional-will consider if submitted)

Hofstra University (recommended)

Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Albert List College (2 required for double degree program)

New York University (2 required except Performing Arts program)

Pratt Institute (recommended)

Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (2 required or ACT instead for accelerated programs)

Skidmore College (recommended)

SUNY at Old Westbury (recommended)

SUNY at Stony Brook (recommended)

Union College (optional except for some programs)

University of Rochester (required for Early Medical Scholars; recommended for all others)

Vassar College (2 required or ACT instead)

Webb Institute (2 required)

North Carolina

Davidson College (recommended)

Duke University (required)

North Carolina State University (required if planning to enroll in Calculus course)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (required)

Wake Forest University (optional-will be considered if submitted)

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University (optional-will be considered if submitted)

Oberlin College (3 recommended)

Ontario

University of Toronto (3 required)

Oregon

Reed College (recommended)

Pennsylvania

Allegheny College (optional)

Bryn Mawr College (2 required or ACT instead)

Bucknell University (required for World Language)

Carnegie Mellon University (3 required for most programs)

Haverford College (2 required)

Lafayette College (recommended)

Susquehanna University (recommended)

Swarthmore College (2 required or ACT instead)

University of Pennsylvania (2 required of ACT instead)

Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico (recommended)

Quebec

McGill University (required of ACT instead)

Rhode Island

Brown University (2 required or ACT instead)

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University (recommended)

Texas

Rice University (2 required)

Trinity University (otional-will consider if submitted)

Vermont

Bennington College (opional-will consider if submitted)

Middlebury College (3 Subject Tests or 3 AP Tests or 3 IB Tests)

Virginia

College of William and Mary (optional-will consider if submitted)

George Mason University (recommended)

Hampden-Sydney College (recommended)

University of Mary Washington (recommended)

University of Richmond (recommended)

University of Virginia (recommended)

Washington and Lee University (2 required)

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