Colleges that Allow Self

Over the past few years, efforts have been made to encourage more colleges to accept self-reported SAT and ACT scores from students during the application process and only require official reports when a student actually enrolls. Leaders of this push have included  Gabrielle McColgan, James Murphy, Marie Bigham, and many other contributors. Why the growing movement? Among the many expenses that add up in the college admission process are application fees, test registration fees, and official score report fees. Many students are eligible to have these fees waived, but other students who dont qualify for waivers may still find the costs to be a burden. A typical scenario might involve a student taking both the SAT and ACT once or twice, applying to 810 colleges, and spending a few hundred dollars simply to have official score reports sent to each college. Colleges in the list below have stipulated that students may self-report their test scores in their applications. Click on the name of the college to visit the page on the schools website where the policy is explained. Note that colleges may still require official scores for international and home-schooled students. Our goal is to see this list grow and to keep it as comprehensive and up to date as possible. Please add a comment and provide a relevant link if you believe that updates should be made. Note that only colleges that have written policies on their websites or in application materials are included here. College and Link Agnes Scott College Albright College Amherst College Appalachian State University Augustana College Babson College Barnard College Bates College Baylor University Beloit College Bentley University Binghamton University (SUNY) Birmingham-Southern College Bowdoin College Brown University Bucknell University Caltech Carleton College Carroll College Carthage College Case Western Reserve University Catawba College Champlain College Chapman University Clark University Clarkson University Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston College of William Mary Colorado College Colorado School of Mines Columbia University Connecticut College Creighton University Davidson College DePaul University DePauw University Dickinson College Duke University Eckerd College Emory University Florida Atlantic University Florida State University Franklin Marshall College Franklin College Franklin Pierce University George Mason University Georgia Tech Gettysburg College Guilford College Hamilton College Hampden-Sydney College (VA) Harvard College Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hollins University Illinois State University Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Kansas State University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lamar University Lawrence University Lehigh University Lenoir-Rhyne University Lewis Clark College Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Macalester College Middlebury College Millsaps College Mount Holyoke Muhlenberg College NC State University New College of Florida Northeastern University Northern Arizona University Northwestern University NYIT (New York Inst of Technology) Oberlin College Occidental College Old Dominion University Olin College of Engineering Pacific Lutheran University Pomona College Providence College Purdue University Quinnipiac University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rice University Rochester Institute of Technology Roger Williams University Saint Anselm College Santa Clara University Scripps College Seattle University Sewanee (The University of the South) Shenandoah University Southern Methodist University Southwestern University St. Lawrence University St. Olaf College Stanford University Stevenson University Suffolk University SUNY Oswego Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Texas Christian University The College of Wooster Trinity University Tufts University Tulane University UNC Charlotte Union College University of Chicago University of Delaware University of Hawaii, Manoa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Miami University of Minnesota University of Nebraska system University of Northern Iowa University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Portland University of Redlands University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Francisco University of South Carolina University of St. Thomas University of Tulsa University of Virginia Valparaiso University Villanova University Virginia Tech Washington Lee University Washington U in St. Louis Wellesley College Western Michigan University Whitman College Whitworth University Williams College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University Please note: All colleges require official test scores upon enrollment; these are application policies only. Some schools may have different requirements to be eligible for merit-based scholarships. Students should check directly with each college to confirm they have the most recent and accurate policy information.