Bryn Mawr College

Standardized Testing Requirements

Official score reports must be sent by the testing agency for any standardized test results submitted as part of a student’s application.

Bryn Mawr codes:
SAT: 2049
ACT: 3526

All first-year applicants should follow the test flexible policy, with some exceptions:

• The subject/AP tests are highly recommended but not required for students living abroad.
• Submitting SAT or ACT scores is highly recommended but not required for students from mainland China, where these tests are not available.

Transfer students can submit ACT or SAT scores, or choose to follow the test flexible policy. McBride Scholars are excused from the standardized test requirement.

International students whose first language is not English should submit TOEFL or IELTS results in addition to the tests they choose to submit under this policy. The TOEFL/IELTS requirement can be waived for students whose principal language of instruction for the past four years has been English.

Test Flexible Policy

Students select one of the following configurations of tests to submit:

• SAT Reasoning Test and a combination of two SAT Subject Tests or AP tests in two different disciplines
• ACT
• A combination of three SAT Subject Tests and/or AP tests in the following categories:
  1. Science or math
  2. English, history, languages, arts or social sciences
  3. Student’s choice: One test of the student’s choice but in a discipline different from the other two

Only one non-English language test result may be submitted.

If your first language is not English you may submit the results of one test in your first language, but only as your “student’s choice.” One of your remaining test results must be from category one and the other must be from category two, as listed above.

SAT Subject Tests

English, History, and Languages

• Chinese with Listening
  
• English Literature
  
• French with Listening
  
• French Literature
  
• German
  
• German with Listening
  
• Modern Hebrew
  
• Italian
  
• Japanese with Listening
  
• Korean with Listening
  
• Latin
  
• Spanish
  
• Spanish with Listening
  
• U.S. History (formerly American History and Social Studies)
  
• World History
  

Math and Sciences

• Mathematics Level 1
  
• Mathematics Level 2
  
• Biology (ecological)
  
• Biology (molecular)
  
• Chemistry
  
• Physics
  

AP Subject Tests

English, History, Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences

• Art History
  
• Chinese Language and Culture
  
• Macroeconomics
  
• Microeconomics
  
• English Language
  
• English Literature
  
• European History
  
• French Language
  
• French Literature
  
• German Language
  
• Comparative Government and Politics
  
• U.S. Government and Politics
  
• Human Geography
  
• Italian Language and Culture
  
• Japanese Language and Culture
  
• Latin Literature
  
• Latin: Vergil
  
• Music Theory
  
• Psychology
  
• Spanish Language
  
• Spanish Literature
  
• Studio Art
  
• U.S. History
  
• World History
  

Math and Sciences

• Biology
  
• Calculus AB
  
• Calculus BC
  
• Chemistry
  
• Computer Science A
  
• Computer Science AB
  
• Environmental Science
  
• Physics B
  
• Physics C
  
• Statistics