<p>In January, i scored a 2200 on the sat I with 800 m 640 r and 760 w. I was happy with that, but wanted to see if i could do better in march and i did MUCH worse (2050 composite, 750 m 720 w 580 r) and i just heard that a number of colleges that i plan on applying to (Cornell, Wesleyan, Carnegie Mellon) don't accept score choice from CollegeBoard anymore. Am I screwed? Will they look at this negatively? Is there anything I can do? </p>
<p>Also incase anyone was wondering, some colleges that do this
Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale
All UC Schools
Georgetown
Colgate
University of Maryland - College Park
Syracuse University
Rice
Tufts
Wesleyan
Harvey Mudd
Barnard
Scripps
George Washington
Columbia
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>I used score choice and all of my schools said they didn’t allow it. There’s NO way they will find out. Releasing your other scores without your permission violates FERPA and the CollegeBoard wouldn’t do it.</p>
<p>Just send the scores you’re comfortable with. No big deal.</p>
<p>@keeponreaching If you select score choice for a non-score choice school, apparently many times they have ways of finding out. And they do NOT look upon this favorably.</p>
<p>Huh…i’ve never heard that. If they did find out, you could easily sue CollegeBoard for violating FERPA and they could get into a LOT of trouble. It hasn’t hurt anyone I know.</p>
<p>I was in the same situation (went from >2100 to close to 2000) as you and I managed to get into a couple schools on that list, even without score choice. I think they tend to look at your highest score regardless. Make sure you have some strong SAT II’s to back it up though!</p>
<p>@keeponreaching You’ll never know if they found out and/or if that’s why you got rejected, so there’s nothing you can do about it.</p>
<p>By the way, and I don’t mean this to be at all offensive, but would you mind letting us know which non-score choice schools you did score choice for, and which of those accepted you? I’m actually quite curious myself, because a few of my schools I couldn’t send score choice to and I’m curious as to whether I may have had a different outcome at a few if I had (though honestly I personally couldn’t have brought myself to do it).</p>
<p>I did some research on this and collegeboard does have warning to indicate that such school does not allow score choice, but will not send if you ignore the warning.</p>
<p>Post #11, same with Cornell. I also read one kid that was accepted to Penn and didn’t send his ACT score, he only sent his SAT score, which Penn’s admission website states he should send all scores(ACT+SAT). I think because of this standardized test scores are not counted heavily at these schools.
Penn - Important
Cornell - Very Important
Dartmouth - Very Important
JHU - Important</p>
<p>Will you retake the SAT? A 640 CR is very weak for almost all the schools on that list, unless you have a hook or dont speak english as your first language.</p>
<p>Lol. Honestly, when everyone I knew was going to use score choice I decided to use it. Also, it would have cost me a LOT more money to send all of my test scores and with all of the other application fees, I just couldn’t afford it. I don’t feel guilty at all for using score choice.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to believe that it is ok to lie to get ahead and to supplant other applicants. It is another to openly suggest everyone to do it.</p>