<p>Really? I was pretty sure that your HS gets the scores. I don’t remember anywhere that it was asked if you wanted your HS to receive or not.</p>
<p>In any case, the point is not that colleges want the scores directly from College Board, but more that you may not want your SAT score to be on your HS transcript, because you did poorly, and had in fact planned on sending the ACT scores instead to colleges.</p>
<p>You have to tell the where to send the scores. They do not automatically know. AP test scores are reported to the high school since most of the time it is the high school who administers and sends the batch out. You can take the SATs anywhere offered and many kids do not take it at their high school.</p>
<p>In Florida, public colleges access <em>all</em> your SAT and ACT scores automatically based on rights you sign away when you apply, and this may well be going on elsewhere.
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<p>Interesting, Imdamom. Thanks for sharing that info with us. It may well be the case in our state as well, since some of the state schools do not require the SAT to be sent from College Board. All of the private schools that my kids applied to do require the scores to come directly from the source–CB, in the case of SATs and transcripts very specifically have to be stamped with a raised seal in many schools. </p>
<p>I do know that our high school did not get our son’s scores, because the counselor told my son. He just went onto his CB site on her computer and she printed them off just for the school records–did not require one sent directly from CB. But then, they do not have any info on the transcripts other than the classes and final grades for them. No test results at all, though they are in the students’ file.</p>
<p>When you register for the SAT, I’ll bet there is a place for you to put in the Code # for your high school along with your address, phone number, etc. That is probably how your high school gets your SAT scores without your specifically directly that a score report get sent to the high school. </p>
<p>I’ve seen the print out the high school gets–the list includes scores from everyone from the high school who took the test at the particular setting. The data comes on a disk that then gets dumped into the school computer system.</p>
<p>The only way to avoid the score going to the school would be to not put in your school’s code #.</p>
<p>Any idea why college board now is balking about high schools reporting AP scores on transcripts and not ALL SAT scores, as many schools do?</p>
<p>College Board doesn’t want any of its scores on high school transcripts. </p>
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<p>I wondered, too. Could it be it was originally well-intentioned, in response to h.s. kids not sending their scores directly to colleges on time. So the h.s. was mopping up after disorganized students? </p>
<p>My kids sat for SAT’s when their lists were still in flux, so it was hard to recall where they had sent which scores or put the newest additional college names into the loop.</p>
<p>It’s all computerized now, so students can check their tracks…but who’s checking on the students?</p>
<p>Sometimes what is good-hearted in one school turns into a nasty when applied to kids who don’t need that kind of “help.” I would NOT want to be a GC today. </p>
<p>When you think about it, the h.s. is trying to help; has nothing to gain by doing this except to ensure all kids have SOME scores sent. It’s more work for the h.s. to do this than to leave it off. So I conclude it’s over-the-top well-intentioned h.s. stuff, not appreciated by those better-informed students who prefer to cherry-pick their best scores.</p>