The application for 2020 Fall admission window has not been opened yet but the student has already received SAT/ACT score. Can the student send the score to the planned the school or has to wait until the application window is opened? Thank you for your answer.
Yes, of course. The school will create your file even without your application, and then match it to your application later. You don’t have to do anything special.
Some schools will toss it in the garbage can as well. Certain ones that receive a huge number of applications every year aren’t going to collect anything until applications actually come in.
Yes you can. My D sent the free score reports first semester of her junior year. I will say that two of the schools failed to link the scores with her application though and she had to email them to get that corrected.
Yes you can. They keep them on file electronically.
I suspect that a very large percentage of students take the SAT and send scores to schools before Fall of their Senior Year.
My D just finished Sophomore year and has already sent SAT/Subject Test scores to schools. They have sent literature (which they never have before), so I’m confident they have received them and filed them away for use in 2+ years.
I’d be extremely surprised if schools accepted scores from College Board and tossed them in the garbage can if the students weren’t Seniors. My older D never would have been accepted to any schools she applied to (which she was) as we sent all SAT scores in the Spring of Junior year at the latest.
If you send a score to a UC, all UCs get the score. If you send to say all 9 UCs, yes, 8 scores will go to the garbage can.
Is it better to send the SAT/ACT and HS transcript (till 11th grade junior year) to the planned school before the application is opened IF the test score is perfect and transcript GPA is excellent?
My S, in his junior year, sent his SAT/ACT and SAT Subject test scores sight unseen to 4 colleges, which are among the most selective and required all scores sent at that time (but not anymore), and one of which regularly receive 40k+ apps every year. He never took these tests a second time, but all 4 colleges had no problem matching his scores with his apps automatically and he didn’t have to do anything. UCs could possibly be different with some of them receiving 100k+ apps per year.
It does not matter as long as they are sent on time. If it helps to get something off your plate early, then it’s helpful for you to send early. Colleges don’t care one way or another.
The transcript, SAT, recommendation has been ready for the next year admission but the common application has not been opened yet. Is there a way to get a paper application form from the school or nowdays all schools receive only application for admission online? Thank you for your answer.
You need to check the school web sites to see if you can apply online or in paper directly. I know some of my DS’s school apps were direct.
I think it’s universally online. Regardless, the Common App can be started not and most of the info will roll over when the new version opens. Essays, where you know the new prompts,and where you know the prompts won’t change, can (and should) be started in Word (or similar) first and then cut and pasted later. Even if allowed, I see no reason to ask for a paper application.