<p>So I've taken the ACT two times and I am about to take it a third and final time to hopefully get a better score, and I was wondering what a school that does not allow Score Choice for the standardized tests can see? Do they still just focus on my highest score if they can see all three of mine? Or do my lower ones negatively affect the rest? </p>
<p>Also, with subject tests, can they see every test I have taken even if I only want to send in two of the best ones? Thanks if you can answer this. I honestly think the no Score Choice thing is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Hi gjstewart, I was wondering about this too. My daughter took the SAT in May and got a 2260 (770 CR/690 M/800 W), which I’m worried isn’t enough for the top colleges. I want her to retake in the fall so she can do better in math, but a lot of schools want to see all of her scores. Even if she improves in math, will colleges hold her first score against her? Do you think she should retake it?</p>
<p>Score choice is actually a reference to the SATs policy when you order scores sent to a college. The College Board’s default position is to send the scores for all past and current tests it has for you unless you exercise score choice and specifically choose tests not to be sent. ACT does not have score choice because its policy is that it sends only the particular test you order sent to a college and to send multiple test you must make multiple orders. </p>
<p>The real issue is what do colleges require you to send. There are many that require you to send all scores. Sometimes that is also phrased as not wanting you to exercise score choice. However, what a college actually requires has to be checked with each college because those all scores colleges actually break down into the following separate groups: (a) those that actually require you to send all SAT, all ACT, and all SAT subject tests; (b) those that require all SAT and all ACT but you can send whatever subject tests you want to send; (c) those that require either all SAT and all subject tests or, alternatively to both of those, all ACTs; (d) those that require all SATs if you send any SAT but if you choose to send ACT you can send whichever ones you want, same as to subject tests; (e) those that don’t use subject tests but require either all SATs if you send any SAT or, alternatively, all ACTs; (e) those that don’t use subject tests and require all SATs if you send any SAT but, alternatively, you can send whatever ACTs you want.</p>
<p>As to what scores colleges actually use to determine admission, an issue that is actually entirely separate from whether you have to send all scores, colleges break down as follows: (a) as to SAT the majority will use the highest section scores from multiple tests, and a large minority, including most public universities, use that test with highest composite; (b) if you submit multiple ACTs, majority use the one with the highest composite and a minority use the highest section scores from the multiple test; (c) as to colleges that consider subject tests, they will either consider the highest two sent if you send more than two or consider any that you send; all the colleges that actually require you to send all subject tests are in the group that considers only the highest two for admission.</p>
<p>Bottom line is that if colleges are to be believed, none of them hold lower scores against you when you send more than the required number of tests.</p>
<p>Most schools requiring all scores would either do super score (mostly but not only for SAT) or look at the best single sitting scores. Even if they use single sitting scores first, they may look at best section scores later on. For ACT, you pay for each score report. For some schools that requires all scores for ACT, you may send the best one and self report the other ones (e.g. Stanford).</p>
<p>Let’s say you have taken SAT 3 times and you have 3 different SAT scores. </p>
<p>When you send all three scores to a perticular school , does CB consider that as 3 orders or one order? </p>
<p>If you want to only send super score, do you check which of the reading, writing and Math score you wish to send or you send all three scores and then the college will super score? </p>
<p>If you send super score, is that one order or more?</p>
<p>It is not possible to send only your superscore. CB’s score choice allows you to choose to withhold from sending a particular test not the section scores in a particular test. It is the college that will then superscore when it gets multiple tests.</p>
<p>For CB, sending any or all SAT and SAT subject test scores is one order per college. For ACT, if you want to send two tests to one college, you have to do two different orders…</p>
<p>For the College Board, all scores to one school = $11. You can tell them not to send certain scores, but everything you want to send, including subject test scores, is sent to one school for $11. </p>
<p>For the ACT, one score to one school = $11. So if you took the ACT twice and want a college to superscore your test sections, that’s $22 per school.</p>
<p>Every time you take SAT they give you 4 free score reports. Not sure if they do the same for Subject tests.</p>
<p>If you take 2 or 3 SATs, how does this work? Say at the time of taking Jan SAT, you have requested one of the free report to be sent to College 1.</p>
<p>Now you retake SAT in March and May. What happens, do they automatically send the other two reports from March and May to college 1 ? </p>
<p>In other words, if you take 3 SATs at 3 different times, can you technically send all your scores to 12 colleges at no charge? </p>
<p>I don’t know why college board won’t let you send the free reports after you are done testing so you can decide what to send and where to send.</p>
<p>Yes. They offer that for subject test too. The silly thing is, if you need to send scores to 4 schools, it would be cheaper to take 1 SAT subject test and get the 4 free score submissions than paying for the score submission only. When they send score, all SAT1 and SAT2 are included.</p>
<p>Still not clear. At the time of taking 1 st in Jan if you have specified that free report be sent to College X, Later on in March and May you retake SATs. Will they send all Jan, March and May reports to College X even if the March and May tests were taken after the free score report had been requested.</p>
<p>Free reports at registration only include the current and previous scores. Future test will not be included. It will show in your order history which score has been sent to which school.</p>
<p>Each test registration that you do, whether for SAT or subject tests, gives you those four free sends. When exercised, CB will send the particular test for that registration and all prior SAT and subject tests you have taken to the colleges designated. However, it does not send any future test to the same colleges that you designate unless you designate them again as one of your free sends when you take that future test. Also, the free sends for any given test registration expire the second Monday after you take the test if you fail to designate a college by then.</p>