College Testing Requirements Several ACT or SAT Optional Colleges Agnes Scott College Hobart & William Smith College Bard College Ithaca College Bates College Knox College Bennington College Lake Forest College Berklee College of Music Lawrence University Bowdoin College Lewis and Clark College (Portfolio Path) California College of the Arts Marlboro College College of the Atlantic Mount Holyoke College Colby-Sawyer College Providence College College of the Holy Cross Ringling School of Art & Design Columbia College Chicago Sarah Lawrence College Connecticut College Smith College Denison University St. John's College DePaul University St. John's University Dickinson College St. Lawrence University Eastman School of Music Union College Fairfield University Ursinus College Gettysburg College Wagner College George Washington University Wake Forest College Goucher College Wesleyan University Guilford College Wheaton College Hampshire College Wittenberg University Hartwick College Worcester Polytechnic Institute *For a more complete list please visit Fair Test Colleges with Various Testing Options American University Test optional for Early Decision and Regular Decision if all required documents are submitted by November 1 Colby College SAT or ACT or 3 Subject Tests Colorado College SAT or ACT or 3 exams of your choice Franklin & Marshall SAT or ACT or 3 Subject Tests Hamilton College SAT or ACT or 3 exams of your choice Lake Forest College SAT or ACT or admission interview Middlebury College SAT or ACT or 3 Subject Tests Muhlenberg College SAT or ACT with writing or 3 SAT Subject Tests or 3 AP scores New York University SAT or ACT with writing or 3 SAT Subject Tests or 3 AP scores Pitzer College SAT or ACT with writing or 2 AP tests with scores of at least 4 or 2 school exams Swarthmore College SAT and 2 SAT Subject Tests or ACT with writing or SAT and ACT Colleges that require SAT or ACT and SAT Subject Tests College # SAT Subject Tests Required California Institute of Technology 2 Carnegie Mellon University 2 Columbia University 2 The Cooper Union 2 Cornell University 2 Dartmouth College 2 Georgetown University 2 Harvard University 2 Harvey Mudd College 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 McGill University 2 Olin College of Engineering 2 Princeton University 2 University of Virginia 2 Washington & Lee University 2 Williams College 2 Colleges that require SAT and 2 SAT Subject Tests or ACT in place of both Amherst College Pomona College Barnard College Rice University Boston College Trinity College Boston University Tufts University Brown University Vassar College Duke University Wellesley College Haverford College Wesleyan University University of Pennsylvania Yale University *Please note that these lists are not meant to comprehensive in nature, always verify with the college or university website. .