Angry mother screaming at all me for not using score choice. prove her wrong.

Applying to College
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<p>I'm applying to selective colleges- University of southern california, claremont mckenna, ucla,....</p>

<p>I got a 610 on the first sat II math 2c test.
I retook and got 730.</p>

<p>I sent all my scores in.</p>

<p>should i have used score choice? I really didn't think it mattered</p>

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<p>Doesn’t matter. They’ll just look at the higher one anyway.</p>

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<p>Claremont McKenna doesn’t require SAT IIs, but does require all your SATs.
[Freshman</a> Application Components, Claremont McKenna College](<a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/admission/apply/fresh-components.php]Freshman”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/admission/apply/fresh-components.php)
USC doesn’t require SAT IIs, and considers the highest section of each time you take the SAT I.
[Freshman</a> Standards - USC Undergraduate Admission](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply/fresh_standards.html]Freshman”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply/fresh_standards.html)
UCLA doesn’t require, but will consider, SAT IIs.
[UC</a> Admission Requirements - Freshman - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/fracadrq.htm]UC”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/fracadrq.htm)</p>

<p>It always helps to determine what the requirements are for each school you’re applying to before deciding what to send or not to send.</p>

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<p>UCLA STILL requires the HS classes of 2010 and 2011 to submit SAT IIs.</p>

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<p>yeah i think ucs require sat iis now</p>

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<p>My son attends a top new england bs with a top notch college counseling department. They said score choice is ridiculous and a waste of time…don’t use it, just send in all your scores and the schools only care about the highest ones. Sorry, mom, with all due respect, you are in error.</p>

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<p>That’s a big difference in scores. Just remember, if you don’t get in, mom was right.</p>

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<p>OP
Congrats on your score going up! Way to go!</p>

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<p>According to my son’s gc’s, they really don’t care and all they will use is the highest score and toss out the others. This is from a school where most of the kids get into some of the best schools in the country. In other words, they know what they are talking about.</p>

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<p>Given you had the improvement on your second testing, I think it’s great. If it were your fourth or fifth time, then the improvement would be easily discounted by your file readers. Congrats and best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>What’s the point of screaming? What’s done is done! </p>

<p>That said, those schools will take your best scores…some will superscore. I hope you get in so you’ll have the last word. :)</p>

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<p>Do they also take the highest SAT Subject Tests as well? If you took Math2 the first time and got 600 but then 800 the second time, do they ignore the first one?</p>

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<p>This has come up several times. Please look at the following website for score choice policies of different institutions</p>

<p>[Score</a> Choice - New SAT Score-Reporting Policy](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/policy]Score”>Send SAT Scores to Colleges - SAT Suite | College Board)</p>

<p>Open this pdf</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;

<p>This will tell exactly how each college wants the scores.</p>

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<p>thanks! fffff</p>

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<p>I looked it up, and it seems that UC’s require all the sat scores. I applied for 7 UC’s. WHAT NOW, MOM?!</p>

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<p>“Just remember, if you don’t get in, mom was right.”
uh, no, because they look at your highest, anyways.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>I agree…but I think what the poster may have meant is that if the OP doesn’t get in, the mom will insist that she was right (even though the facts won’t support that claim).</p>

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<p>college kid92’s mom: you just got owned.</p>

<p>score choice is just another scheme to take the money out of your pockets - and give it to collegeboard.</p>

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<p>^^^
Actually, you pay the same to collegeboard whether you send all scores or selected set of scores. It costs you more only if you keep sending scores to the same college several times.</p>

<p>I think ACT is the one who’s after your money. You will have to pay for each sitting score you want to report, esp for colleges like Cornell who want to see everything … I don’t know why.</p>

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