Lawrenceville school Strongly recommends but doesnt require it.
Should I give them the report if it’s bad?
@bantonov I took the Snapshot, and I don’t think I will send it. It’s not because my results were bad (even though they kinda were) it was that for some reason they didn’t reflect me and the rest of my application.
@eekeek I took it too, and yeah, same. I’ve talked to some others and they don’t feel like it reflects their personalities accurately, either.
i feel like its not neccessary in general. the test is formatted so weirdly and idk… it’s not the best? whatever i guess.
I would not send it either. However some schools like Lawrenceville a pretty aggressive regarding the test. On their website you can see that although they cannot mandate you to send it they specifically paraphrase it that they are looking into it and strongly recommended. Which in other words to me means that if you do not submitted they will not look into the application the same way. Please let me know what you guys think. I took this test very lightly and did not realize that it is an evaluation test.
Long story short, I did a lot of research into the Snapshot, and I am not a fan. Schools use it differently, and believe in it in varying degrees. Some use it just to collect the data, not as part of your application. Some say “strongly recommend” when they mean “required”. Many were deeply involved with the development of the Snapshot and are deeply invested in its perceived worth. Some have score profiles they prefer, and they aren’t all what you would think (it is ok not to score strongly on all measures – growth in high school is a good thing).
It is a very difficult question – to submit or not to submit. As said above, read very carefully how each school uses it. Kiddo submitted for some schools and not others. If the school said “strongly recommend” and I knew they were involved in the test development, we submitted. But you have to make your own choice on this – I don’t know how anyone reading this scored or even what makes a “good” score.
@bantonov @TheHappinessFund Yes, totally! I have demonstrating for one of the skills, but I’d say there are many other areas where I’m much stronger. My entire application tends to center around a few other areas where I’m “developing” in. I don’t think submitting a snapshot that contradicts my entire application and me as a whole would be a good idea.
HOWEVER (big however here) the snapshot hasn’t been around for too long of a time. Also the data set increases every time a student takes it, so kids taking it 80 years from now (assuming climate change hasn’t taken us all) would have hyper accurate results while we’re here with results that barely describe us. I think we can also agree that the format wasn’t the greatest. With any personality test, the results can’t be entirely accurate. Personally, I think a school would find so much more about work ethic and habits through recs, grades, interviews, or even a well written essay. It would make sense to me if schools looked at the report to make sure there aren’t obvious red flags, but not to deeply analyze every single skill.
I was on the SSAT website yesterday and came across a message saying the character snapshot was scored incorrectly and that results were reactors and students could either discard scores and retake or keep the newly scored test. I am assuming this was current information but since my DD hasn’t taken her character snapshot yet, I didn’t pay close attention. Not to throw out half-baked info but wanted to share in case it was new info and in case it was helpful for one of you to look into further.
I reviewed the website. There is NO such message.
The rescoring happened a year ago when we were applying so it is probably an old message. Unless they are incompetent enough to have it happen two years in a row.
@417WHB I’m sure that must have been the message I saw yesterday. I can’t imagine they made this exact same error twice. No clue why it’s still floating up there somewhere apparently since I definitely read it yesterday while I was hunting for something on their site about the January test. But whatever — that’s another issue outside scope.
Back on track — nothing to see here…
Just popped over to SSAT to confirm I wasn’t losing my noggin…the message is definitely still there:
https://ssat.org/10-scores
But again…sounds like it was last year from other posters so I’m disregarding.
It’s still there but under “Which Snapshot results were affected?” it states that only results from August 2 and December 16 2018 were affected.