<p>Dear peers,
I requested my scores be sent to 8 universites (Auburn, University of Illinois, University of Georgia, UTennessee, Tulane, Hendrix, Clemson, University of Florida) on Dec 20th. However, I just realized it takes 3-5 weeks for the institutions to receive the scores. The deadlines for most of these schools are Jan 15th. Will winter holidays and off-days from business affect my scores making deadlines? I am assuming people get off and stay off work from Dec 23rd to after New Years. Will they make it to the universities before it's too late? Two of three of those schools have rolling admissions too. I really hope I didn't mess up by not rushing the reports through Collegeboard. I am very worried. Any help appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>A "rush" to the College Board is to send them in the mail. Then they go into the college's mailroom and have to be opened and filed. Normally scores are sent electronically. It may actually be faster to wait for the normally scheduled electronic transfer rather than the rushed mail.</p>
<p>Colleges say that they want everything in by the deadline, but the only really important things are the application form and the application fee. They won't penalize you for teachers sending recs in late or high schools sending transcripts late. At the beginning of the year, they are just deluged with trying to open all of the mail and filing it. Then they read essays for quite a few weeks before decisions are made. The SAT scores will have plenty of time to get there. </p>
<p>A lot of colleges have websites where you can logon and see the status of your app and if anything is missing. They will send you a userid and password if they have such a system. If they are missing anything from the high school, they may call the GC.</p>
<p>yeah--my scores are supposed to be "sent" on the 30th, and i was worried about that too. i called them, and all (even the ones due on the 31st and jan 1st) said it would be fine. so i'd say don't worry about it.</p>
<p>no all colleges want is for them to be postmarked my deadline not there by deadline and by rushing you are guaranteed that they will be postmarked 1-2 business days after your request...as for how much it is neccessary for them to get there on time...that is the decision of the op</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry. Even if people arrange to meet the deadline sometimes scores fall through the cracks somehow. The college lets you know that the scores are missing and you deal with it. It happened at two schools last year with my daughter.</p>
<p>They will be so deluged in January they won't even have time to realize your file is incomplete most likely.</p>
<p>Same thing is true with recommendations. One recommendation didn't make it into one school's file. They let us know and the recommender sent another copy.</p>
<p>Rushing isn<code>t necessarily a good thing. It would come in a paper format to the college, which means that someone would have to type it on the computer and insert the information, and who knows how long it will take to finally get it on there. If you send them normally, it probably won</code>t even get noticed.</p>
<p>Many college say don't rush them! As others said, they don't want to get them by mail. Their systems are set up to record the scores by downloading them directly. Getting them rushed by mail actually slows things down!</p>
<p>for future reference, this isnt a dear abby column. no address to address us as "dear peers" and to proclaim yourself to be a "worried boy". most of us are worried to some extent</p>