<p>SAT</a> will let students pick which scores to show colleges - Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>Wow, if this only was integrated a year ago...</p>
<p>This makes me so unbelievably angry.</p>
<p>From the article:</p>
<p>"Some observers say recent gains for the ACT prompted the new SAT policy."</p>
<p>There you have it in a nutshell. Nothing personal. Just business.</p>
<p>Why am I not surprised?</p>
<p>This is an excellent development, in my opinion. I actually think that superscoring favors those who can afford to take the test more than once more than this policy...</p>
<p>Baelor -- I think this policy will favor those who can afford to take the test even more than before. Think about it -- colleges will continue to superscore -- and this will encourage students with $ to take the exam over and over and over and then send the highest scores (which will then be superscored). Right now most students are reticent about taking the SAT more than 3x because colleges are aware of the # of times the SAT is taken and more than 3x looks like the student is obsessing over scores.</p>
<p>I am not sure that colleges will continue to superscore. If you hide all of your bad scores except for your 2370, they will never know. It just seems to be like their will be some reaction to this by the adcoms. This policy seems to be favoring the best single-sitting of the SAT, so I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there is a decrease in the number of colleges that superscore.</p>
<p>However, I retract my earlier statement about favoring those who can afford to take the SAT over and over.</p>
<p>I agree with what Baelor is saying. This move was clearly made to match what the ACT is doing. Very few colleges superscore the ACT (I don't think I'm familiar with any that do actually) so it's definetly possible that colleges stop doing that.</p>
<p>There will definetly be a lot of schools not liking this move at all (a couple elite colleges are already mad about it according to the article).</p>
<p>Starting with the class of 2010? Nooooooooooes.</p>
<p>WHOAH. That is the first typo I have made in years. </p>
<p>Also, to clarify the last post, I just meant that colleges will not know if 2370 is a student's first sitting or his seventeenth. For this reason, they probably will only consider the highest single sitting for everyone, because someone whose superscore is 2400 on two sittings will show both these scores while someone whose seventeenth sitting is 2400 will only show that. They don't want to have to guess about it.</p>
<p>I don't think it's so much that poorer students won't be able to afford the sitting fee to take it multiple times; I think that the problem is more that: </p>
<p>(a) Students from schools with less cutthroat counselors may not be informed of the opportunity, whereas no doubt richer students will be encouraged to take the test as many times as possible (even more so than they already are -- and, this time, without the downside of colleges seeing a record of all the attempts!); and
(b) More affluent students will be able to afford more extensive preparation -- yes, this is nothing new, but this change will encourage them to do so, as there is no penalty for taking it many times.</p>
<p>omg one class year off darn but i'll live haha</p>
<p>New</a> SAT Score-Reporting Policy</p>
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The College Board has approved an important change to the current SAT® score-reporting policy. This new policy will give students the freedom to send the scores by sitting (test date) that they feel best represent their ability to colleges and universities in the application process. Designed to reduce student stress and improve the test-day experience, this new score-reporting feature will be "opt-in" and will first be available for students in the March 2009 administration at no additional cost to students.
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<p>I wonder how this will change admissions.</p>
<p>Too bad i'm applying this fall....</p>
<p>There are already posts on this everywhere.</p>
<p>yeah and it doesnt matter for kids aiming at top schools (i.i. CC) because top schools can still demand you to send in all your scores.</p>
<p>^ lol sorry but I didn't look....</p>
<p>breaking? Lol</p>
<p>^ sorry, but I had to make it catchy ;)</p>
<p>I guess no one thinks this is important...</p>
<p>March 2009? So if I take it in January, it will show correct?</p>