SAT

Yale University follows a test-flexible policy for the submission of SAT / ACT scores. However, for the Class of 2029, students were required to submit SAT/ACT scores. Students can submit the same if they wish to. However, it was reported in Fall of 2025 that students have to submit ACT / SAT scores. The university follows a holistic admission process, so all of the components of the application are considered for admission such as:

• Academic performance
• Essays
• Extracurricular achievements
• Recommendations
• English language proficiency score

Unless absolutely necessary, applicants should avoid rescheduling their SAT exam dates. The reason being that they may or may not get a full refund. Plus, the re-registration costs the entire amount. Thus, if possible applicants should appear for the exam and if the situation is not apt, only then consider rescheduling your SAT exam date.

Yes, you can switch SAT 2026 dates. You must cancel your current registration first and then register again for a new date because the College Board no longer gives an option to simply reschedule the test on their website. Expect to pay a cancellation fee.

Yes, students who shall complete his or her application online to B.E.S.T. Innovation University powered by Sunstone through the Sunstone Admission Test (SAT) may be correspondingly entitled to scholarship up to eighty (80) percent. The percentage of scholarship depends upon the SAT score with the highest being above 95 percent. This assists in lightening the financial load of students who do well in the screening exercise. It also promotes excellency in other areas besides academics such as in sports.

The Digital SAT is the online or the digitalised version of the SAT exam. Previously, SAT was conducted on pen and paper and since March 2023, for Indian applicants SAT has become online or digital. Thus, as the name suggests, Digital SAT is a standardised exam for applicants applying for admissions abroad for undergraduate courses. 

You can totally self-prepare. You do not need expensive coaching classes. There are many free resources by College Board. They give you official practice questions. If you are disciplined and practice every week, you can get a great score on your own.

There is no limit to take the SAT exam. Applicants can take SAT as many times as they like. The colleges see only those scores which applicants wish to share with them. There is a provision of superscoring also on SAT, thus, improved scores can be submitted. In case the colleges require, applicants will have to share all their SAT scores with them. The score sharing policies may vary per university and their requirements. 

The new in the Digital SAT format is that:

• It is 46 minutes shorter than the previous edition and 2 hours 14 minutes long.
• Computer-adaptive where difficulty increases or decreases based on performance per section.
• SAT exam is now taken online on the Bluebook App on one's own device, or a borrowed device from College Board. 
• Reading and Writing is one section, rather than two different sections.
• Math's section permits applicants to use calculator for both its sub-sections.
• SAT exam scoe scale has come down to 1600 from 2400 initially.

No, SAT is not mandatorily required everywhere for admissions. Some universities require it mandatorily, however after COVID, a lot of universities have become test-optional, reinstated SAT score requirements or completely shut the use of SAT exam scores. Thus, if you are an international student and are applying for undergraduate admissions, then you must check if your university is SAT submission mandatory or test optional.