<p>Can someone tell me about colleges that accept score reports sent to them by applicants and not college board.</p>
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<p>Why, so you can forge your scores???</p>
<p>Abhishiv, apply to colleges outside the US. They'll accept scores sent by you so long as they are attested by your high school principal or guidance counselor. Good luck.</p>
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I don't want to forge my scores, i am already expecting 2400 in SAT II and above 33 in the ACT. Why the hell would i like to forge. The thing is the 9.5$ fee collegeboard takes. It's too expensive, i know it would pay out in the future but still!</p>
<p>If you are so confident in your scores, take advantage of the free score reports you get if you sign up before you take the tests. (Just curious -- you expect to score well in English? Do you just not care in your CC posts?) You only get a few schools -- but if you score that well, you only need to apply to a few.</p>
<p>The cost of score reports is a drop in the bucket in what you will have to pay for college. It is only a fraction of what you have to pay to apply to schools in the first place. It seems silly, at best, to pick out schools based on whether applying to them you can save a few bucks.</p>
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<p>I agree it is silly, but then there all kinds of people in this world.<br>
I still feel that people like the OP should apply outside the US picking schools where they don't need to send official scores. In fact, he could saved more money by not taking the SATs at all.
I think OP has taken to heart the proverb 'a penny saved is a penny earned.'</p>
<p>I don't know of any in the US that do that because they want the official reports to keep students from cheating. Not even score reports that are sent as part of one's h.s. transcript count.</p>
<p>To fret over a trivial cost like this is a waste of time. If money is that tight, then spend a lot of time applying to colleges that you know you can afford: That's probably local public 4-year and 2-year colleges that you can commute to.</p>
<p>I said "silly, at best" and my word choice was deliberate. Some scores can be sent for free and the cost is minimal in any case. So that leaves us to wonder if the articulated rationale is the true one. I guess I was being too subtle.</p>
<p>If someone was hoping to forge scores, denying it on an anonymous board would hardly give him pause. Perhaps you haven't seen all the "I'm not planning on lying on my applications -- I'm just wondering if there is any way for colleges to catch people who do" threads.</p>
<p>In any event, apparently all US schools we know of do require official score reports, so the OP has his answer whatever his motivation in asking.</p>
<p>ummmm, aren't scores also included in your transcript from your HS? at my Ds they are if you want them to be....</p>
<p>at our school, they charge per transcrpit a very nominal fee, and its all official</p>
<p>and the 9.5 fee is a big money maker for CB, but what can you do, in the grand scheme of $40000 a year, its tiny</p>
<p>Yes, some high schools do include scores on your high school transcript, they are not considered official scores. When D applies to college she must send scores from the college board or ACT (depending on the test she has taken).</p>
<p>Well guys you probably can't understand my situation(financial). It may be silly for you but it's not for me.
I am applying to the ivies and almost all the ivies meet 100% demonstrated need(my Family Contribution would be 0-500$). I am also eligible for the fee wavier so app fee would not present any problem. I am no scrooge, its just that paying the $9.5 fee would present a hardship. I am applying to 12 schools and CB gives only 4 free reports.
I was thinking if i could xerox my score report, have each xerox attested by any Government official and then mail them. Actually some time back i saw this</a> post and thought that i could apply to some more schools by faxing the Score Report.
Diane i am expecting above 33 on the Reading and English section of the ACT also. I know What you mean, actually when i made the comment here at CC, i do so in a matters of few moments and as always never paid the slightest heed to proper presentation.. You are probably doubting my English abilities because I am not a frequesnt speaker of American English. Many things that are routinely said and considered correct in India are considered ungrammatical or awkward in America.</p>
<p>Lastly, I AM NOT GOING TO CHEAT ON MY APP. That’s it if you can’t believe I can’ help you.</p>
<p>Abhishiv - schools DO require OFFICIAL score reports - BUT - that being said ............. If this is a true financial hardship - I might recommend that you contact the schools directly and ask this question of them.......maybe they will have a better answer for you.</p>
<p>Or does CB have any form of fee waivers for paying off these fees, I mean they usually do for most things.</p>
<p>I am int' so they will not accept fee waivers from me, i will contact the colleges directly.</p>
<p>Wait, CB will not accept a fee waiver, then not to be rude but then how do you afford the SAT exam itself or is this an exception, because if you can afford testing fees then coughing up 9.5 per college shouldn't be excessive</p>
<p>Jesus. So suspicious. What are you Sherlock or something.</p>
<p>I would spend 100$ on SAT II & ACT. I am applying to 12 schools, i would get 4 free reports so i will have to send reports to 8 schools.</p>
<p>Now 8<em>9.5(SAT II) + 8</em>7.5(ACT)=136$</p>
<p>It's even more than what i payed to give the tests.
It may be small sum for you but not for me.</p>
<p>oh trust me, it's not a small sum for me either, but i come from a family which is willing to make some sacrifices for my education, b/c like you my EFC is nothing great either, so...</p>
<p>The general recommendation is to apply to six schools. With four free schools, that would be $34. If you pick the test on which you do better instead of submitting both, it would cost even less. My two kids applied to 12schools between the two of them. My daughter only sent her ACT score since it was better; she got into three selective programs. </p>
<p>The suspicion comes because you asked for names of schools initially; you didn't say, "I have this list of schools but sending the score reports to all of them will be costly; do I have any recourse." </p>
<p>If you know which schools you want to apply to (which should have nothing to do with how scores have to be reported), then you shouldn't be asking this question here. We can't speak for the colleges. If some allow self-reported scores on a case-by-case basis, then you need to make the case to them. Perhaps, were you to have other verified testing in your home country, they would be more lenient.</p>
<p>I don't see any provision for a waiver or reduction of the score report fees for the SAT or ACT. But you can always email them and ask; the worst that can happen is that they say no.</p>
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I would spend 100$ on SAT II & ACT. I am applying to 12 schools, i would get 4 free reports so i will have to send reports to 8 schools.</p>
<p>Now 8<em>9.5(SAT II) + 8</em>7.5(ACT)=136$</p>
<p>It's even more than what i payed to give the tests.
It may be small sum for you but not for me.
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<p>You have to choose your battles. I agree with DianeR as there are expenses associated with applying to college. No school will accept scores unless they are official scores coming from the College board or the ACT. </p>
<p>This being said the ball is in your court if you cannot affordthe expenses associated with applying to 12 schools (sending score reports, application fees, payign for copies of the CSS profile to get Financial aid, etc) now is the time where you must go through your list and ultimately you reduce the number of schools you are applying to. Because the ACT and the College board allow to to send your scores to 4 schools for free at the time you take the test, they do not provide fee waivers for sending scores to additional schools.</p>