Is there a list of colleges that don’t require official score reports (ACT to be particular) and consider scores on your transcript to be enough?
I hope not. It would be a bad policy to accept self-reported ACT or SAT scores.
@marvin100 There are plenty of schools that allow this thing. Carleton and College of Wooster just to name a few.
Wow, that’s very surprising, @BurgerMan1 , and I can’t find support for that claim on the Carleton or Wooster site. Do you have a link? I’ve known a lot of students who have attended Carleton over they years, and they all submitted their SAT scores directly via the College Board. Do you have any way for me to verify what you’ve said?
@marvin100 https://www.wooster.edu/admissions/apply/firstyear/policy
“Please note that score submissions must come from your guidance office or testing agency.”.
@Marvin100: MANY colleges accept test scores as official when on the transcript. Why would the guidance office lie on an official transcript?
However, as far as I know, no one’s tried to compile this information before.
@BurgerMan1: if many students contribute, this would be a great resource to “pin” on top of the forum, since sending scores can cost so much. I’ll try to help.
@BurgerMan1 - thanks! I guess that still rules out self-reported scores, which I was assuming the OP meant (bad assumption, in retrospect). How about Carleton?
And I’m still not sure how a student would have standardized test scores on her transcript…
Bradley University does. Also they allowed my friend to take a screen shot of his scores and send that.
I’m most surprised about a very selective school like Carleton, to be honest.
Colleges with test-not-required admissions would be obvious answers to your question.
Yeah, I was assuming I didn’t have to explicitly exclude them from my question. Bad assumption. @ucbalumnus
The ACT score is automatically sent to a student’s high school and many schools have a “test scores” record on the transcript, after the school profile and the course/grade listing. This may include, SAT, SAT Subjects, ACT, TOEFL, AICE, AP, plus any state or school mandated tests.
I am not aware of any particular list but there are many colleges that accept scores on your transcript. That is a probably a minority now but 25 years ago, it was almost all colleges. Moreover 25 years ago just about every high school put test scores on your transcript. Many, possibly still the majority, still do. The practice then and is now for College Board and ACT to send your scores to your high school as long as you identify it on your registration.
The change that has occurred snce then, to the majority of colleges demanding offical score reports, actually has nothing to do with the possiblity of students being dishonest. The offical high school transcript is just as accurate as the offical scores and prevents against dishonesty because it is sent by the school (although some still allow a transcript sent by the student as long the envelope sent contains a separate envelope with the transcript and has an offical seal of the high school over the place where that second envelope can be opened).
The change to the majority of colleges now requiring offical scores actually occurred over the years because the colleges more and more wanted the offical College Board (SAT) or ACT reports to get all the additonal information about you in those reports other than just test scores (see for example the ACT report tp colleges http://www.act.org/aap/infosys/report/ ). For a different reason, more and more high schools have dropped putting all your scores on your transcript to allow their students to be able to report only the scores they wanted to report. There were in the past (UCs included not too many years ago) and possibly still are some colleges that accept self-reported test scores. There was no dishonesty factor to contend with even then because those colleges required offical scores after you were admitted and if they varied from what you self-reported, your admisison was withdrawn.
Williams College:
“If sending a score report from the testing agency poses a financial hardship, please take a screenshot of your score report and email it to applicationmaterials@williams.edu. Please note that we cannot process test scores submitted on a high school transcript.”