<p>@shaheiruddin:
Dude, whyyyyyy?
I love the fact that all my scores are on my transcript! It saved so much money when applying to multiple safeties and scholarship organizations that wanted official scores!
@Deja:
Collegeboard discourages this? Hmm I had no idea. I’m still glad my school lists them haha.</p>
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I spend easily over $100 in sending SAT scores, Sat Subject Tests scores,and ACT scores.</p>
<p>@ hotinpursuit, absolutely. With that ACT score you don’t need to bother with the SAT score. And if your SAT IIs are low 700s, don’t even bother with them (at most schools).</p>
<p>My dd does the ACT, not the SAT. She will not be sending all her ACT scores because each one costs separately. I have no idea yet whether she is planning to apply to any non score choice schools that say they require multiple ACT scores but I am not paying for the one where the proctor messed up and called 5 more minutes only 15 minutes into the test. The kids got the appropriate amount of time but d had her score on that particular test fall 5 points.</p>
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<p>That is just plain bad advice. At MOST schools, a “low 700” is excellent, top of the applicant pool. A low-700 is only “low” at the Ivies and their ilk (including a few top engineering schools, where Math 2 reigns supreme), which likely have a mean closer to mid-700’s for unhooked applicants.</p>
<p>I decided to send both of my scores for SATs. I didn’t do very well the first or the second time but i wanted them to see that I improved a lot from my first time. I was able to improve my score by about 150. Even though the score wasn’t really high I did improve a lot.</p>
<p>I followed the rules. Better to be safe than sorry.</p>
<p>Honesto, my son was in the same position as you. 2090 on the SAT, 34 on the ACT and three subject tests 750 or higher. He sent in everything and did just fine during acceptance time.</p>
<p>I think it’s best to check with each college directly. My DD looked at about a dozen college websites yesterday because she needed to choose where to send her June scores (figured she’d send to schools requiring ALL scores). It was mightily confusing to me (and this is my 3rd kid). I found little consistency and discovered some of my “assumptions” were wrong. Oops. </p>
<p>On the bright side, I found that schools state clearly what they require (some are more flexible and state what they RECOMMEND). The info is fairly easy to find - it’s right there on their admissions or application websites (or you can do a search on their website for score choice). Some mentioned they wanted to see EVERY test (including every SAT AND ACT, whereas others said to send one type (SAT or ACT or Both if preferred). </p>
<p>To be on the safe side, I would advise students to follow the directions from the college. The last thing students want is to have their acceptances be revoked due to “hiding” test scores, even unintentionally. I have seen lots of incorrect information given on these boards so be careful. DO NOT assume you know what any particular school wants. Go to the source. If you follow the directions on the college website, they can’t later say you tried to game the system.</p>
<p>I agree, jerzgrlmom–go to the source. It turns out that none of my daughter’s preferred schools require that all scores be sent, and all of them honor score choice. I copied the wording for each of eight or so websites into one document so we’d have it in the future. We concluded that there was no need to send the free scores for the June SAT; we’d wait to see how she did, and then choose what to do.</p>
<p>Well, the thing is, colleges don’t really care if you have some failed scores while others are outstanding. They’d just pick the best ones to look at anyway. </p>
<p>I sent all of my scores, and believe me, some are pretty bad, but that didn’t impact me negatively at all.</p>
<p>And they really don’t know if you used it or not.</p>
<p>Proof one of my friends in my neigborhood who used score choice got into stanford. It’s impossible for them to know which scores you sent</p>
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Why wouldn’t you request a cancellation of scores in these circumstances?</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior but I’m planning on sending all my scores. 2210 and 2240 (2300 superscored) SAT, and two 800s and a 770 on SAT IIs. Nothing to hide, so I might as well.</p>
<p>This is probably my third time asking this question here on cc, but I’m hoping for a good solid answer (my apologies to those who keep seeing this question!). I believe I now understand this whole score policy, and I do find it to be unfortunate when all scores are required to be sent, because this leaves me, and I’m sure other students, in quite a pickle. I just took two SAT subject tests, and my scores were literally horrendous- a 560 and a 580 (not sure how I’m going to to tell the 'rents that one 
) Obviously, I am hoping to retake the test- but only one. One was bio, and bio is not my subject, never has been, and never will be. Needless to say, I think it would be a waste to try again. So if I could raise the one score (very much) and leave the other (580 to be exact) would this really hurt my chances? I’m hoping to take other subject tests to suffice for these lack of acceptable scores, lol.</p>
<p>^^By the way, the only school that I am hoping on applying to and that I know requires submission of all scores is Yale… not sure how that’s going to look on my application! XD Might as well stick to flipping burgers now ;)</p>
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<p>If your top two Subject Test scores are competitive at the colleges on your list, then your lowest score will have little or no impact, especially if you haven’t indicated that you’re interested in pre-med or some other bio-related field. And even if your best Subject Test scores don’t end up as high as you hope they will, that’s not necessarily a deal-breaker. Granted, many colleges do weigh test scores more heavily than they may tell you they do, but–even so–your fate isn’t riding on one so-so score.</p>
<p>Thank you very much, Sally And I am <em>definitely</em> not planning on majoring in pre-med, lol. Hopefully you are right! :)</p>
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<p>Oh, it’s entirely possible. For example, if your high school transcript reports the scores along with your grades, you might have to eat those words.</p>
<p>I can think of several ways they could come to know that you used Score Choice when they clearly require all scores. And, in that situation, the consequences are very likely going to be unfortunate and immediate if they happen to catch on. They’ve got too many incredible applications that aren’t screaming “predisposed to academic fraud” to waste further time looking at yours any longer.</p>
<p>For those who subscribe to the ethical mindset that “it’s all legit if you can’t get caught,” this idea that “they can never know” is really bad information to rely on…particularly if you balance the equation as (a) trying to hide one or two test scores that they probably don’t care about (and, in all likelihood, won’t see anyway because the AdComs are looking at score summary sheets that were prepared for them), against (b) years of hard work in and out of school that they’re not going to bother to look at if they should catch on that you tried to hide those test scores they probably wouldn’t have counted against you.</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous to say that those people who utilized score choice when they shouldn’t have are predisposed to academic fraud. I don’t think one bad decision at seventeen correlates to four years of dishonesty.</p>