<p>We all know the 2010 policy for self-submitting the SAT scores to colleges...</p>
<p>but my counselor told me that if the ivies wanted to, they could find out how many times you took the SAT just to double check...</p>
<p>Is this true? </p>
<p>I currently am debating with myself whether to cancel my score (provided this is true). If not, I don't see what difference it would make...</p>
<p>Can anybody clarify if the ivies can look at your SAT scores/howmanytimesyoutookthem?</p>
<p>what's your score? and Ivies haven't come out with any polices yet, so you can't make any judgment based on that.</p>
<p>the ACT has had score choice for a while and Ivies have never tried to find out how many times applicants took the ACT...so I wouldn't worry about it</p>
<p>How would your counselor know? If you can't find it online, then I wouldn't imagine she could say it with enough confidence. This is just a move by Collegeboard to get more money by getting everyone (people who want to take the SAT 10 times to get a good score or people who already have 2200+s to keep trying to perfect it). You never know though, colleges might backfire by REQUIRING students to write ALL THEIR SCORES on the additional information part of the application. I don't know about your question, but I think it all depends on whether collegeboard will let colleges know that students either sent all or a select few scores.</p>
<p>^ My counselor said that CB isn't secure with the scores anyways and if the ivies want to find out, they can find out.</p>
<p>So what's the consensus? Retake or Cancel?</p>
<p>Post your scores if you want a good opinion on the matter</p>
<p>^ I don't know my scores. It's the SAT II Math I just took. I know I got 7 blank and 2 wrong which is probably 700-750 :/</p>
<p>It's time for the FAQ again: </p>
<p>ONE-TIME TEST-TAKING </p>
<p>Colleges have given up trying to distinguish one-time test-takers from two-time or three-time or even four-time test-takers, because that wasn't useful information to the colleges. There are a number of reasons for that. </p>
<p>1) The colleges have utterly no way of knowing who spends all his free time practicing taking standardized tests and who takes them "cold." </p>
<p>2) The colleges are well aware that students who have actually taken the tests sometimes cancel scores, so they have little incentive to give students bonus consideration if the students submit only one test score. </p>
<p>3) The colleges are aware that students who take the admission tests at middle-school age, who are numerous, do not have their earlier test scores submitted by default. </p>
<p>SAT</a> Younger than 13 </p>
<p>Hoagies</a>' Gifted: Talent Search Programs </p>
<p>Duke</a> TIP - Interpreting SAT and ACT Scores for 7th Grade Students </p>
<p>4) Colleges are aware that the majority of students who take the SAT at all take it more than once. </p>
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<p>5) Colleges are in the business of helping students learn, and they don't mind students taking efforts to improve their scores. They know that students prepare for tests. </p>
<p>From the New York Times: "Although coaching would no doubt continue if subject tests replaced the SAT, at least students would be focused on content as much as test-taking strategies, Mr. Murray said. There would also be pressure to improve local high school curriculums so that students were prepared, he wrote.</p>
<p>"These arguments make sense to Mr. Fitzsimmons [dean of admission at Harvard], who said, 'People are going to prepare anyway, so they might as well study chemistry or biology.' He added that 'the idea of putting more emphasis on the subject tests is of great interest' to his group." </p>
<p>6) And now the College Board is back in the business of letting students choose which test scores to send into colleges, </p>
<p>Score</a> Choice </p>
<p>so now there is less reason than ever to suppose that colleges care how many times you take the test, because the colleges have no way to know how many times you took the test officially. </p>
<p>Colleges treat applicants uniformly now by considering their highest scores, period. </p>
<p>From the Harvard admission office: "If you submit more than one set of scores for any of the required tests, the Admissions Committee considers only your best scores—even if your strongest SAT Subject Tests or portions of the SAT Reasoning Test were taken on different dates."</p>
<p>^ Wow, thanks, that really covered my question. I guess no cancellation for me then (:</p>