<p>Hello?
I'm a Korean applicant planning to apply next year(as class of 2014).
My list of colleges include Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
Starting from next year's applications, I heard that students could choose the SAT scores they wish to send to the colleges they are applying to.
Does that mean that even the "record of having taken the exam" is also gone, or just that the score is omitted, while the record remains?
I think if you have too many records of tests taken but not many scores remaining, admission officers surely wouldn't approve of it.
Umm... One more. Does the same go for cancelled AP scores also?
Any info concerning this issue is welcome.</p>
<p>The details of score choice beginning next year have not been provided. However. it is likely to be the same as the ACT, which has always been score choice, and the only thing that gets sent to the college is the report of the particular test you choose to send and it doesn’t mention whether you have taken other tests. </p>
<p>A second unknown is what colleges will do once score choice for SATs is in effect. Colleges if submitted multiple test scores consider for admission either that test with the highest composite or take the highest subscores from the multiple tests. For those in the first category (using a single test), the change won’t matter much. For those in the second category (using highest subscores from multiple tests) it is unknown whether they will retain that policy and also unknown whether they may insist on your submitting all scores regardless of the score choice rule.</p>
<p>As to APs, they currently are score choice in the sense that you can choose not to send any particular score, and a cancelled test or one chosen not to be sent does not show up in any way on the report that CB sends. However, that is all academic. No college requires AP scores for admission. If you want a college to consider any you can just mention them in the application or in your essay or possibly send copies of score reports you receive.</p>
<p>Finally, your belief that a college’s knowing that you took multiple tests but submitted only one is something bad is a misconception. Generally, colleges really don’t care how many times you take any test and they do use highest scores (and will likely assume that is what you will be sending once score choice is in effect)</p>