<p>Hi, I feel woefully behind the curve. My son took SATs last March and again this Oct 5. We did not specify colleges to send to yet, because we just firmed up our list. He is applying early action to three. I have no idea how to get the new scores to them (if they're better) in time. Forgive if this is something answered on the site and in this forum before. I find the site very confusing!
Can he put his top scores on the common app. Do we send all from College Board and let them pick? New ones are out 10/24 but a friend said they won't get there in time. </p>
<p>If your child’s EA deadline is November 1st, scores can get there on time. Once you send the scores electronically, the college receives them almost instantly sort of like email. So there is no mailing time or anything. You have to check though, if the early action schools will accept the October test date. For each deadline, schools will say the closest test date to a deadline they will accept for that certain deadline. </p>
<p>If your child does better in every section on te SAT this time around, only send the new one, since the new one would be his best score (ie. the new one would equal the superscore). If your child did worse in every category, just send te March scores, as that score would equal the superscore in that case. If your child did better in one or two sections, send them both. But you must check to see if the schools will accept the Oct test date for the EA deadline first before you waste money seeing it to them. And some schools will not superscore, so in that case, only send the best one to that school. You have to check with the schools.</p>
<p>Thank You. By “in time,” I meant by whatever their deadline is for Early Action. I had heard via the parent grapevine that if application gets to school by deadline, test scores can arrive shortly after. In another possibly erroneous grapevine communication, I had heard that it can take up to three weeks for college board to get scores to a school, which seemed odd to me since I thought it was all an electronic process that could happen instantaneously. Again, thanks so much for your thorough explanation.</p>
<p>Also, some schools allow you to select the scores you send - so you should choose the best scores only. Other schools require that you send the scores for <em>all</em> the tests taken - in which case you can’t select, you need to send all of them. We just went through this last week, and two of my kid’s target schools required that all test scores be sent. This information would be included in the online application instructions at each school’s site.</p>