<p>itsasmallworld: Rather, there was always an "incentive" to retake, it's just that schools could tell how many times you had taken it and there was (some degree of) stigma associated with taking the SAT too many times. Now that you can selectively hide sittings, that "stigma" goes away.</p>
<p>Even so, I don't know how many students would take advantage of this...as has been pointed out before, students rarely improve on the SAT after taking it more than two or three times.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's what I meant about students being compelled not to take the test before, and now there is more reason to retake 3-4 times.</p>
<p>As for improving on the SAT, I know it's commonly cited that students rarely improve after taking it more than 2/3 times, but it could still happen. Though personal examples aren't always the best to support a generalization, I know people who improved drastically their 3rd time taking the SAT. If given a fourth opportunity, they could further improve. </p>
<p>The test is all about familiarization, and I think you'll see that under the new policy, some students with previously mediocre scores could suddenly break into the stratosphere on a further testing. Depending on the person, scores can fluctuate drastically between testings.</p>
<p>I guess my point is that I find the new policy generally unfair toward the already disadvantaged demographic. It is not a step forward.</p>
<p>Perhaps this will encourage colleges to re-evaluate once again how large a role the SAT should play in the admissions process? I for one think a little too much emphasis is placed on that test...</p>
<p>I am a rising junior and I will be graduating in the spring of 2010, but I'm planning on taking my first official SAT in the fall of 2008. I won't want to send colleges my scores until the beginning of my senior year. Will this new policy allow me to choose whether or not I want to send my fall 2008 score? Or will colleges see it just because I took it before the policy activation date?</p>
<p>The policy will apply retroactively; you're fine.</p>
<p>brendanww, you do generally perform better if you take the SAT at a familiar environment so taking the test at ur own school would be a good idea.</p>
<p>From what I'm reading its seems to just be what some people are already doing. The new policy says you have to send the whole test if you choose to send it. I know people that when filling out SAT forms they elect not to send their scores to ANY colleges and wait till they get their actual scores back to decide whether they want to send it to colleges. If they do decide to send it they just pay the extra money to send it to colleges receiving scores. but then again I may just be misinterpreting the new policy</p>
<p>@mjmj824: Of course, many kids already did what you describe; but when a score report was sent to a school, it contained scores for all the SATs that student had ever taken. Generally schools would only "consider" the highest scores from each category (aka "superscoring"), but as I've said earlier in this thread, I'm sure that didn't stop some adcoms from paying attention to a student's entire score history.</p>
<p>hi, i'm a junior starting August and will probably take the SAT along with the PSAT sometime in Sept, Nov, Oct.</p>
<p>I heard about this Score-Reporting Policy, but I know that it's officially effective sometime in 2009. </p>
<p>Yet, I don't want to wait until March of 2009 to take the SAT once...but if i took it early, does it mean that i won't be able to take advantage of this new score reporting system??</p>
<p>Will the SAT I take in october be immediately sent to colleges or do I still have the option of choosing??</p>
<p>Not fair.
char 10</p>
<p>Even if you take the test before March 2009, as long as you are in the Class of 2010 (like I am), then the score choice policy will apply to you. The policy applies retroactively.</p>