<p>I’ve seen many people wonder whether they should rush their SAT score reports.</p>
<p>I’m not (really) anti-College Board, but I just don’t like the way they freak out students and gain more money.</p>
<p>Here are some facts for people who will apply for RD:</p>
<li><p>Colleges usually do not prefer rushed reports because of not-favored formats.</p></li>
<li><p>College Board does not really rush your scores.</p></li>
<li><p>Colleges does not really mind if score reports arrive after the deadline: same as school transcripts and teachers’ recs (the deadline is for your application)</p></li>
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<p>Although, most colleges I applied have similar policies about SAT score reports, some colleges might hasve different rules.</p>
<p>Please check those colleges’ websites or contact to the admissions office to make sure.</p>
<p>He's right. Rush reporting doesn't even make sense; College deadlines are typically Jan 1st- and they either take the December score or they don't. If they do, the score will still arrive after the deadline- so it's pointless to rush your december score because late or not, it'll be accepted. Now, if the college does NOT accept december scores- then rush reporting won't make a difference because it'll take at least 2 weeks with rushing to reach the college. That's past Jan 1st. Unless the deadline is late jan or something, but it would still be a gamble because CB doesn't guanrantee a faster delivery with rushing. </p>
<p>But what about the other due dates? Well, the others are for ED and EA- so there's really no way colleges will take Nov/Dec scores. October is still acceptable rushing/non-rushing for EA/ED. So again, utterly pointless to rush scores. </p>
<p>If anyone should be worried about getting sued, it's College Board.</p>
<p>I think the only time you need to rush scores is if the school has requested scores that either were not received or you forgot to send in. Otherwise, reporting the score is not the same as procrastinating on taking. Basically, schools are not going to go penalize SAT score receipt.</p>
<p>As our HS counselor...who used to be an Ivy adcom...explained: If you pay extra for rush service, College Board will deliver a paper score report via FedEx or similar. Although you might rush to open the occasional FedEx delivery to your home, college admission offices simply don't have the manpower to rush to open and process the hundreds/thousands of FedEx deliveries they receive. Instead, incoming delivery packages and envelopes are piled up, opened and sorted, and often re-routed into new paper piles (e.g., new application, pending application, financial aid, etc.), for eventual placement in your file as soon as reasonably possible. All the while, College Board's estimated turnaround time for non-rush transmission of your score has more than likely elapsed.</p>
<p>I don’t know about all colleges, but Brown takes Nov scores for ED, and I don’t think you have to rush them either. You definitely don’t need to rush Oct scores for ED.</p>
<p>This comes up annually. Many colleges state that they require regular delivery and don’t want rushed reports. Applicants too often equate an application deadline date with the test score deadline date. They are not aware:</p>
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<li><p>For colleges with November deadline for ED or EA, every college accepts scores from October test dates by regular delivery and they can arrive after the deadline. In fact, most of those colleges accept for EA and ED scores from the Nov test date by regular delivery at least for SAT IIs.</p></li>
<li><p>For RD almost all accept through the December test date via regular delivery (there are a few that actually require everything to be in their hands by Jan 1). That includes the UCs which have a Nov 30 app deadline. Moreover, a number of colleges with a Jan app deadline take scores from the Jan test by regular delivery.</p></li>
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<p>Moreover, many could easily avoid “rushing” scores under the incorrect assumption they have to if they would simply pick up the phone and call the college’s admission office and ask if regular delivery is OK.</p>
<p>OK this is my situation: I’m applying EA to Yale and took sats in october but did not indicate for my scores to be sent to yale. Should I rush my scores or just pay for regular delivery to an additional school? does yale accept rushed scores??? I’m so confused!!!</p>
<p>this year i had a student dropped from one university’s consideration because his scores were not ready. This has been the exception to the rule, however. Most schools seem willing to work with you as long as they know when to expect scores.</p>
<p>At UMich, if your application is sent before the priority deadline but your SAT scores are not received before the deadline, you’re bumped into the regular pool.</p>
<p>please help me.
I want to apply to georgia tech. they have mentioned on their website that scores must be received by DEC 31.
today is dec 25 . i dont know whether i should rush report my scores or not??/
can somebody tell me what to do??
i cant contact the college due to the winter holidayd.
please help</p>
Question – I’m applying to a college early action, and the app is due Nov 1… I just received my subject tests scores, and want to send them. The school receives scores electronically, so does rush services matter?