<p>Can someone explain superscoring to me? Because I don't understand it? Like from my understanding - </p>
<p>Under new rules, I as a entering sophomore can take the test 10 times and will only give my best score to the schools. </p>
<p>How does that work?</p>
<p>I'm glad this is missing our year ('09). This is just going to encourage people to take it a million times, and earn collegeboard a huge profit...</p>
<p>When schools start worrying about increased appeals because of being denied or waitlisted, you can kiss superscoring goodbye. Consider this comment from an admissions dean:
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College Board, on the other hand automatically sends cumulative reports of all your testing, so we can be reasonably assured that we've got a total record ... [were it not so, as with the ACT] the door would be wide open to every student who wasn't successful in their admission efforts to challenge the decision on the grounds of having had us review incomplete test records.
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<p>For the record, I disagree with the reasoning behind the change: to make the test less stressful. Guess what? Stress is a part of life and that includes college. I would think that the ability to handle stress is something that colleges would like to know something about. When it's crunch time how does an individual perform? I'm not interested in having surgery performed by a doctor that doesn't handle stress well. The same goes for a real estate agent or even the guy taking my order at Wendy's.</p>
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so glad class of 2009 (seniors!! woot!) are missing out on this 'benefit"...
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<p>Oh really? The class of '10 will be, as you say, "taking the SAT at every possible test date." Good luck getting a seat. Sign up early!</p>
<p>"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."</p>
<p>so this doesn't apply to me if I am going to college in 2009?</p>
<p>Well...that sucks. I'm not eligible :)</p>
<p>modestmice: I don't think you're eligible, since people going into college in 2009 will be done with SAT by March of 2009, and all of your transcript and test scores are in.</p>
<p>Found here: 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.</p>
<p>This new score-reporting feature also gives colleges the ability to choose which scores are required for admission. Colleges and universities will communicate any changes to their admissions policies or application requirements to students.
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<p>Q: Will this new score-reporting feature be available to students who register for 2008-09 test dates prior to the launch?</p>
<p>A: Yes. Students who register for a test date that will occur after the Winter 2009 launch of the new score reporting policy will be able to return to update their registration information via the College Board Web site or by calling a toll-free customer service line. If students don't update their registration information, all scores will be sent with their score reports by default.</p>
<p>what exactly is the benefit of this?
if you bomb an SAT/SAT II, you won't have to let any colleges see? don't they only consider your 2/3 highest SAT IIs anyway?</p>
<p>Oh, to hell with you, College Board. Why implement this now after decades of making us all live in fear of getting a bad score?</p>
<p>No one who was aware of previous college policies needed to fear getting a bad score. Colleges have always given you the benefit of your best score. Read the Harvard viewbook (which is available online) if you don't believe me on this subject.</p>
<p>What about superscoring...</p>
<p>March 2009.....why me.....</p>
<p>wait,, so if im a rising junior (class of 2010) and i take SAT I in 2008 October, which is before March 2009(the date for the change in scoring policy)
do i still get the chance of not including the test score of 2008 October in the scoring policy?</p>
<p>or is it just the tests after March that i can choose?</p>
<p>Hi, I'm a senior year student and i have taken the SAT 1 three times. I have already sent my scores to the colleges i want to send it to, as i didn't know about this rule...does this rule apply to seniors as well? So can i send my highest score to the rest of the collegs i apply to??</p>
<p>please help me out!</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>I don't think so, rowtheboat. The policy is apparently only being put into effect in March 2009.</p>
<p>I gotta say, as a class of '10 kid, I don't like this policy. You know the kids that can afford to will be taking it at most every single test date until they fluke into a good score [because that is possible].</p>
<p>I only plan on retaking it once [at the most], I hope I'll make the same decision when the scores come in...</p>
<p>thanks a lot zoaxanthellae!</p>
<p>wow i freaking wish this applied to us so i could retake my 790 Physics
this sucks this is seriously such a huge advantage to those in the class of 2010 and later</p>
<p>boo us for being born this early and boo collegeboard for scamming people</p>