I am very confused about how this works (please be kind…we are new at this.)
My child took two SAT tests and did better in the Reading/Writing on the first test and better in math on the second test. I am having trouble grasping the difference between a superscore, composite score and score choice. What is the process if she wants colleges to consider the best score from each date? Does she just send both sets of scores and the school superscores them? And how would this differ from score choice?
Sorry to sound so dense.
Some colleges superscore, others don’t. if they superscore they will take the highest score for each section.
You don’t send pieces of your SAT to the colleges. You send the whole score from each test you want them to see and then they only consider the best of each section. So, if you got a 600M 700EW on one test and a 630M 650EW on a second test, you send both tests. The school that superscores will consider the 630M and the 700EW for your application.
College Board calls this “score choice”. All that means is that you are choosing which WHOLE scores to send instead of just sending “all scores” (which obviously means you are sending all tests to the school).
So, you use score choice and send the tests you want to your schools. And then the school superscores them.
Got it…sounds like there are multiple names for the same thing, which is what was throwing me off. Yes, she’d send all scores since she only took two. 