<p>I've seen people reference a few times on this board on the fact that WM can see SAT scores, even if you don't send them. Is this true? If so, how?</p>
<p>I've never heard of such a thing. Where did you hear about that? I wouldn't think College Board would have open access.</p>
<p>Oh, you're referring to what pedsox said in the "unlikely applicant" thread. I have no idea...</p>
<p>They are stamped on your high school transcript which is mailed to the colleges.</p>
<p>Then why bother to pay for an official report?</p>
<p>Some high schools do this, and I've always wondered why. It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. SAT scores are between a student and the College Board; how does the high school enter into it? Colleges shouldn't be willing to use SAT scores on the hs transcript because the student hasn't released them officially. I can't imagine that the CB is happy about losing all that score reporting money, either.</p>
<p>There's a way around this - when you register to take the SAT, don't provide your high school's 6-digit ID number. You aren't obligated to - just leave it blank. Results will be mailed to the specified home address, not the high school. I know people who have done this, and there's been no negative fallout. If your hs is the testing site and should choose to get into a snit about leaving the field blank, you can always take the test in an alternate location. </p>
<p>Before my youngest d took the SATs, I wasn't sure that she'd perform well, and I asked her GC what the school policy was. She told me that the scores were entered on the transcript as a matter of courtesy, because some colleges were willing to accept them as official, and it would save the student/parents the reporting fee. This sounded fishy to me. I had to go back and forth with the GC several times before she agreed, in writing, to remove my d's scores from the transcript if my d didn't want them there. As it turned out, she didn't have to have them removed. But if the GC hadn't agreed to remove them in advance, my d would not have identified her school on the registration form.</p>
<p>This is something I try to mention to friends when their children enter the admissions fray.</p>
<p>Ah, okay.
Thanks</p>
<p>I had two extra copies of my high school transcript in sealed envelopes because I needed them for application to a summer program. When I only used one, I opened it up because I wanted to see what the college sees. That's when I saw that my SAT scores and ACT scores were stamped on the official transcript. I had no problem with this but wondered how the high school's got this info. MY guidance counselor told me that when you take the SAT's you have to give high school info and the high school gets a report to go in your file. The same situation happened to my younger sibling who goes to JMU. He wasn't proud of his first scores and all of it was on his official transcript. My guidance counselor is the one who told me that the colleges can see every SAT and ACT you take. Weird, I know.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you don't have to provide the high school info, though it doesn't surprise me that the high school would tell you that you do :rolleyes: The daughter of a friend of mine took the SATs without identifying her high school. She was at the same testing site as my daughter. In the lobby, printouts were posted with the name of each student listed under their high school's name. My friend's daughter's name was on a short list of "unaffiliated" students, and not on the list of students from her actual high school. I took this to mean that not providing the high school ID on the SAT registration is permitted by the College Board. I can't see why the high school should be allowed to intrude on the relationship between the student and the testing agency.</p>
<p>Pedsox, your story demonstrates that everyone should take a close look at their hs transcript during the application process. Though our high school doesn't permit students to see teacher and GC recommendations (if the right to do so is waived), each student is given a copy of their official transcript early during senior year and told to review it for possible errors. I know several people who were unhappy to learn that all SAT scores were posted.</p>
<p>Doesn't collegeboard send all your scores from anything you take after 9th grade?
Don't let one bad score get you down. I got in with a 1 on an AP Exam :)</p>
<p>CB did indeed send all scores at one time. My friend's daughter wanted to send her best SAT or ACT score - she would not have sent both unless both were strong. So if her ACT turned out to be considerably higher than her SAT (and it was), she didn't want the hs transcript to record the lower standardized score where colleges could see it.</p>
<p>I don't have any kids young enough to apply to college anymore. So I'm not sure, but I understand that there is now some form of score choice with the SATs, meaning that not all scores are automatically submitted to colleges?</p>
<p>When you ask CB to send something, they send everything they have on you. It's wonderful.</p>