Honestly, what is the point of score choice?

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<p>I've started to apply to colleges, and the College Board's score choice policy makes absolutely no sense to me. The "SAT Score-Use Practices by Participating Institution" PDF packet indicates that most of the schools that allow for score choice either take a student's highest scores and create a composited superscore or look at a student's single highest test date score. Just by logic, both of these two policies would be effective regardless of whether or not a student utilized score choice. By using score choice, aren't students simply doing the "work" that colleges themselves will eventually do?</p>

<p>Hypothetical Example:</p>

<p>Student A (Uses Score Choice and Sends Only First Sitting):</p>

<p>First Sitting: CR(740), M(780), W(800)
Second Sitting: CR(670), M(720), W(740)</p>

<p>Superscoring Colleges Acknowledge: First Sitting
Highest Sitting Colleges Acknowledge: First Sitting</p>

<p>Student B (Does Not Use Score Choice):</p>

<p>First Sitting: CR(740), M(780), W(800)
Second Sitting: CR(670), M(720), W(740)</p>

<p>Superscoring Colleges Acknowledge: First Sitting
Highest Sitting Colleges Acknowledge: First Sitting</p>

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<p>Because although colleges “focus more on the superscored scores”, they often still consider the single sitting (whether this is publicly stated or not).</p>

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<p>Yeaaaaa tell em mabsjenbu. Btw how did your most recent taking of either test go?</p>

<p>OP: there are schools that follow neither highest-sitting nor superscore SAT policies.</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>That’s part of my argument. I’m pretty sure that the schools that do not honor the two policies I mentioned above also do not honor score choice.</p>

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<p>Student B would be a dumbass to send both scores, as it is deprovement.</p>

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<p>*Honestly, what is the point of score choice? *</p>

<p>So that if you somehow did abysmally bad on a SAT, you can choose to omit it so no one ever knows? And if you know that you can hide a score, you’ll be more likely to take the test more times, giving yourself more practice and collegeboard more money?</p>

<p>It used to be that all the SAT takers were extremely excited about Score Choice, you know :). I still think it’s great to have the score choice option, even if colleges claim to “take the highest scores” themselves.</p>