<p>The FERPA waiver students are asked to sign on the Common App allows HS to disclose/discuss anything in a students' file. What if student has some lower scores that they are not reporting to a score-choice college, that were already sent by College Board to the HS (I know it is better not to let this happen, but too late now)? It seems safest to take them out of the file, so that they are not carelessly revealed or reported. It can and has happened.</p>
<p>Do kids and parents have the right to do this? FERPA allows removal of incorrect information, but on what basis can parents remove such scores? Legal opinions needed.</p>
<p>I’d be interested in legal opinions on this, too. What I’d like to know is, why does this information wind up in a student’s high school file? What right does the high school have to it? And, if a student or parent wants it removed, why does the hs so often make that difficult?</p>
<p>Just a reminder that students do not have to specify the high school when registering for the SAT (or didn’t have to a few years ago, at any rate. Hoping that hasn’t changed.)</p>
<p>When I wanted scores removed from my child’s high school transcript, the GC did not want to comply with my request. I then sent a letter which included the specific Collegeboard document recommending that schools not include test scores due to FERPA concerns and I also suggested the school implement a system where students or parents have to give written consent for schools to release the test scores. I further suggested that the school corporation lawyer should be consulted as to how the gc should proceed with the matter. I am fairly certain theynever changed their procedure but the scores were removed from the transcript.</p>
<p>I can’t unbderstand why College Board even reports the scores to the schools. Our GC told us that the scores were included on the transcript “as a courtesy” to students, because many colleges would accept them in lieu of the official score report, which costs money. At which point I decided to get my information elsewhere.</p>
<p>You don’t have to list it on the SAT either - the first time D took them it was a mistake that she didn’t fill that out (I think she forgot her HS code) - once we realized the positives of not linking them she never did again and I’ll make sure my younger 2 avoid this as well.</p>
<p>My son had a wonderful guidance counselor. The only thing she ever did that made me mad was her obstinacy about reporting test scores on the transcript. I got my son’s scores removed from the transcript but it was a struggle.</p>
<p>She said, “Many of the colleges want to see all the scores.” And I thought, “Who are you working for, the colleges or my son?”</p>
<p>And this was at a high school that very seldom sends anyone to a college that would even care.</p>
<p>Then the colleges can require their applicants to send in SAT scores and forbid them to use the score choice option. </p>
<p>At our local high school, although SAT scores are reported to the school, the scores are not put on the transcript–a policy that I agree with. Why bother the school to report SAT scores when you will have the student self report scores and have the applicant send you scores directly from College Board? The conclusion that our high school came to was that there was only downside for them.</p>
<p>In fact, if you look at the Secondary School Report that the counselor has to fill out, there is not question that asks the counselor about the student’s SAT or ACT scores.</p>
<p>The only place that I think the SAT scores are used is in the creation of the School Profile. I believe the average SAT scores (CR and V) are listed in that document.</p>
<p>I think it’s helpful for high schools to have the scores, both for the creation of the School Profile (where indeed average scores are listed) and to help the GC to recommend appropriate colleges and put in Naviance data. Our high school has never put students’ individual scores on the transcript so that has never been an issue.</p>
<p>Do not enter a high school code on the SAT or ACT application, and the scores will not be sent to the high school school. If you want to report your scores to your GC, you can do it on your own.</p>
<p>If you do not want your child’s scores to be disclosed by your GC, which is your FERPA right unless you waived it, demand that the scores be removed from the transcript and/or your child’s file. The colleges want official scores that come from the SAT/ACT people; the ones sent from your GC are not official and therefore serve no purpose, but could hurt your student.</p>