<p>So the SAT offers to send 4 free reports to whatever college you choose. I thought that this meant they would send them after you actually apply to the school and you just choose up front for future reference. I think I'm wrong about this.. But the thing is, if the colleges have no idea who I even am (I'm still a junior and haven't applied to anywhere yet) then does it even matter that I sent them my scores? (I sent them to I think 2 ivys and 2 non ivys)</p>
<p>I got a 2200 ss
Math 790
Reading 750
Writing 660 (faaiiill) 8/12 on the essay =[</p>
<p>After I got my ACT scores back, I don't know if I even want colleges to see this one.. b/c the ACT score is considerably better.</p>
<p>When you apply for an SAT test you can list colleges for sending the test and those “free” sends are sent when the scores come out. Colleges begin an application file for a student when they receive such scores even if you have not applied yet and then when you do apply, your application is matched to that already created file.</p>
<p>If you take it as an underclassmen, most of the time, you’ll start beginning to get things in the mail from the colleges you listed. It’s kinda a, “I’m interested in you for being interested in us, here’s some info on our college,” thing. My mailbox increased dramatically junior and senior year from colleges that had seen my test scores.</p>
<p>So would you send the score reports to colleges that you’re definitely applying to or not? I wanted to send scores to my top-interest schools to show that I’m interested in them, but then I decided to send them to less competitive universities instead because if I fail my SAT in May, I would not want my score to go anywhere at all.</p>
<p>Score reports can still be cancelled after the test, right?</p>
<p>And for Medisun, I think colleges only consider your top SAT score in their admission. Some schools even take the top scores out of SATs taken on separate dates, and they may only look at your ACT score if that one is considerably higher, so don’t worry about just that one bad writing score.</p>
<p>Schools are generally in two groups for the SAT if you submit more than one SAT test score. For admission, they either use that test with highest composite or they mix and match and use the highest section scores from multiple tests.</p>
<p>Nothing requires you to designate colleges for receipt of the SAT in your application for the test. You can always wait until score comes out and then send but in that case you have to pay a fee per college. You can cancel a test score very shortly after taking test (I think you have up to five days from date of test) but you will not know your scores by the time the cancellation deadline occurs.</p>