<p>I got a big question. The SAT test allows you to put codes for you to send to colleges, but I dont want to send them until I see what I get first. </p>
<p>When I receive my scores, I am planning on sending them after reviewing them first. If I send them to the respective colleges AFTER viewing them through collegeboard, will they get to the colleges at the same speed as putting the college ETS code on the test itself? </p>
<p>I don't think that was very clear... don't know how else to say it. </p>
<p>Also, i know when you register before a test you can put down the College SAT code up to 4 for free. Is this still offered AFTER I take the test... Or do I have to do it now?</p>
<p>You’re kidding right…I find it crap enough that you have to pay to send scores.. it should be a simple email through a secure ETS site. We paid enough money for tests, and their study guides, as well as their BS accessories. </p>
<p>Are you sure those 4 free ones cant be done until after you receive your score?</p>
<p>How much have you looked at the College Board Web site for the answer to these questions? Are you a senior this year who has to meet a deadline for reporting your scores to colleges? </p>
<p>The young people I know best in your generation, and the ones I knew best in my generation, had a good idea what score they would get before they ever showed up to take the test, and a good idea what scores were competitive for the colleges they were applying to. It doesn’t hurt to designate the score recipients before testing day in that case.</p>
<p>What are you going to do, try and choose which scores to send? The score report sent to colleges by the College Board is CUMULATIVE. It shows every SAT you have taken (at least up to six). If you wait to see what you got first before sending it and it is bad, you will probably retake and the college will end up seeing the bad score ANYWAY. Please save yourself the money and send the four free scores in the case that you do score well so you arent out additional money.</p>
<p>If you know you can’t take the test again (trying to make a deadline), you might as well go ahead and name colleges on the test. The only reason I would advise you don’t is if you might have to re-test before you apply (for example, they would consider your application before they could receive scores from another testing). If you don’t name them on the test, it takes three-five weeks and costs something like $9.50 each to send. No, you cannot have free ones after you see your score.</p>
<p>no, i said you wont know your score. but i think you can go online and do it up to a couple days after the test. but you dont get your score for almost a month.</p>
<p>and i took the sat for the first time in june, and planned on retaking. so i didnt send them then. but when i take it again in october i might send it.</p>
<p>if you send one SAT, you send them all…so retaking them and not sending the first doesn’t really do much. unless you are talking about taking the ACT instead and sending those…</p>
<p>Okay, so from what I am hearing. The 4 “complimentary” options to send scores can only be done while registering, and cannot be sent AFTER you receive the tests. Very typical of collegeboard to pull this one off. </p>
<p>Now, I understand what you guys mean about the cumulative score, but I want to try to catch their attention in a way… I’m taking the ones in October, November, and December, and possibly even January since the school I want to go to says they will accept that one as the final test. </p>
<p>So lets say I take the Test on October 6th… and get my score.. lets say.. (don’t know exact date) .. maybe October 25th. If I paid the money to send the score to my school, will they get it in about 24 hours… (electronically i assume… if its paper, their so full of crap) Maybe a week at the most. Is this right…</p>
<p>I think the only way to insure your scores get sent out right away is to pay the extra fee to “rush” them.<br>
From what I understand (and I may have this wrong) there are certain days in the month when ETS sends scores to certain colleges. For example… say they send out all scores to Harvard on the 15th of the month. If you ordered your scores to be sent on the 1st and someone else ordered their scores to be sent on the 10th…both will go out on the 15th because that is Harvard’s send day.
So, if you need scores to get somewhere right away..use the rush option. Of course, the College Board makes you pay extra for it.</p>
<p>The Harvard admission officer I met in my town in May 2007 said, in answer to a question about this issue, that rush scores arrive at EXACTLY the same time in the Harvard admission office as regularly processed scores. She advised not bothering with rush scoring. Perhaps another college would answer differently. I do NOT get the impression that scores are sent instantly once a student requests that they be sent–what is the latest that the College Board says about this on its Web site?</p>
<p>Don’t overthink this test stuff. Many adcoms will only see the highest scores, regardless how many times or when you take the test. For example, colleges have interns and volunteers etc., who often complete a stat summary on the exterior of the applicant’s folder. On that stat summary is the highest individual test scores, whenever they were taken, and perhaps AP scores, gpa, etc. Of course, a reader could open the file and go digging for CB’s actual SAT report, but it would be a waste of time for s/he to do so.</p>