Help - Any advice much appreciated please! Somehow my son did not submit his SATs scores with his UC applications!!! six applications in and 3 rejections (he only submitted SAT Math somehow!) We JUST discovered as I was confirming that he was in the top 9% statewide - which he is - long story, he’s very smart but ADD and what more can I say - aagh!
His score was 2060, 3.9 GPA, athlete, good application, quirky well-written essay etc!
I’ll start with his counselor and UC etc in the morning but is there ANYTHING we can do at this LATE stage with UC???
Any advice much appreciated. Thank you
Have you called the UC Help Desk? https://admissions.universityofcalifornia.edu/applicant/html/help.html
I’m guessing that when he entered his scores into the UC application that he only entered a math score? I’m surprised it didn’t throw an error. I didn’t think you could get the College Board to only release a subtest score. Never heard of that before.
Would you post what you learn?
You have to submit the scores through the College Board, which means he would have needed a credit card, because it costs money to send scores. I think this is the parent’s responsibility, unless the kid has his own credit card.
Did he just self report his SAT Math score and not sent in any official scores? Or did he just send in the SAT 2 Math score without the SAT 1 scores? Did he check each UC’s portal to make sure his scores were received? He did not get any emails indicating his application was incomplete?? Does not make sense. His only option may to appeal. Good Luck and let us know what happens.
Op,
I feel your pain. I have an ADHD kiddo as well. On the UC apps, kid self reports their std test scores, but also must contact either college board or act to have the official scores sent to one if the UCs and then they distribute it to the other 5.
If ur kid qualified for the top 9%, then maybe can submit scores and get a late acceptance to UC Merced? Other options would be
- to take a gap year and reapply next year,
- Go to community college,
- Some private unis that don’t fill will take late apps,
- Maybe some CSUs that have difficulty filling will take a late app
Unfortunately the UCs don’t send out email notices for missing documents. They force the applicants to log into their portals to read any messages. Many kids never log onto their portals, I know that mine didn’t, and so they would never see the message for missing items to their app.
So sorry and hugs to you!!
you can always appeal and add the test scores as ‘new information’. But I’m afraid that the appeal reviewer may not take kindly to, ‘I forgot’, as the reason for not submitting test scores. Even if you use the LD angle, that only raises the question about being able and responsible enough to complete work at the major research university. But definitely speak with your GC. Perhaps they’ve had experience with other kids who forgot…
As an example of the appeal process, I’ve added a link to UCLA’s:
https://www.admission.ucla.edu/AppealsFr.htm
Btw, I bet that this happens pretty commonly, and that the UCs have ways to deal with it
I don’t have any suggestions, just hugs to parents and kid in this situation. I have a smart but spacey kid too; I know how it goes.
He wouldn’t be the only smart kid with great scores who went to a CC and then transferred to a UC, if it came to that.