<p>If I apply Ea, When should I have my sat's and sat II's finished? (Going to be a junior)</p>
<p>If you'll be applying for class of 2011...
Try to have them done by October 2006, November at the very latest.</p>
<p>I'm applying for 2010, and I'm taking mine this coming October.</p>
<p>October is the LATEST. I've talked to my admissions officer who is in charge of my school and she said that November scores usually don't make it, and a lot of the times, the scores come after they have made decisions on several if not more of the admissions cases. (I'm an incoming freshman at Harvard, by the way).</p>
<p>Harvard says that Nov scores usually do make it. The schools get them on-line before you do.</p>
<p>Harvard sent me a booklet that says the following:</p>
<p>"October 22, 2005: Last ACT testing date for Early Action candidates.
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November 5, 2005: Last SATI and SATII testing date for Early Action candidates."</p>
<p>November 5</p>
<p>Last SAT I and SAT II testing date for Early Action candidates. November tests usually arrive on time for Early Action consideration. In addition, as long as you designate Harvard as one of the recipients of your scores when you register for College Board Tests (code is 3434), you do not need to use the rush reporting option - even for Early Action consideration. Rush reporting will not get your scores to us any more quickly than the normal reporting procedures.</p>
<p>I'd really advise finishing testing by October. You never know what the College Board might do, with all its idiosyncracies.</p>
<p>With the introduction of the new SAT, lots of people who took the test in March got their scores way late (ETS allows itself 8 weeks, though usually scores are available in 2). To be on the safe side, I'd suggest taking the SAT no later than October for EA and no later than December for RD, with the caveat that the year before last, a snow storm forced a cancellation of the Dec. 10 test date. Some districts rescheduled the test for Dec. 20, some did not.</p>
<p>The real question is, why don't you take it in the spring of your junior year as the latest, and let it go then?</p>
<p>lazybum99: Sometimes, summer is the BEST TIME and THE ONLY TIME to prepare for these tests. For example, in my junior year, I was pursuing an Intel Project, a huge community service project and two independent AP tests (because my school refused to give me them due to scheduling which meant I had no APs on my transcript). There was just NO time for any SAT II studying. During the summer, it was a bit more relaxed, I could go through the review books slowly and take my time studying, which I think is also a viable option. I got great scores on my two tests I took in October, and it paid off - I am off to Harvard in the fall.</p>