<p>Hi everyone! New to the place here. Read alot of info. But my big question for the day...... I am a bit confused. My son has taken the SAT already and is signed up for another. I was under the impression that when registering for the SAT and than also prior to test administrating you have the option of checking if you want the SAT scorce results released to any colleges????? Than why would the amount of the amount of times you actually take the test be an issue? Or is it because the total test scores and times appear on your school records????? Looking forward to all your inputs. Thanks, GM</p>
<p>You are allowed "four" free scores reports be sent to colleges each time you take the SAT; you can use the free ones to send out scores or not, or you could send out the four freebies and more at $8/per college. Each score report is cumulative of all previous tests taken, including any subject tests.</p>
<p>Colleges don't care how many times you take the test up to a point. If a kids take the test xx times, but as one admissions counselor noted, "we'll begin to wonder if s/he has nothing better to do on a Saturday morning". </p>
<p>The Collegeboard data indicate that a student's scores do not increase after the ~3rd testing...... Moreover, one author wrote in a book, that one college (Wesleyan, if I recall), would average the scores after three takes; possibly, other colleges to the same, but I have not seen that in print.</p>
<p>You may be remembering score choice which allowed you to send only the SAT II scores that you chose to send to colleges and avoid sending ones you did not. That did not apply to the SAT I. In any event, it no longer exists. Whenever you request the College Board to send any one SAT or SAT II score to a college, either by checking it on the application to take a test or ordering it separately afterwards, the College Board automatically sends all of your SAT and SAT II scores that it has on file for you. You cannot prevent that from happening.</p>
<p>Colleges generally do not care how many times you take the test. Moreover, for multiple SAT tests, majority of colleges actually recalculate your SAT score by taking the highest subscores from each test, e.g., if your math was 750 on one test and 650 on another, they count the 750 towards your total SAT. Minority of colleges will consider only that test on which you have the highest combined/total score and ignore any other SAT tests you took.</p>