<p>through score choice, do colleges see your other attempts? as in if i retake it and do not quite as well as I would hope, would that count against me?</p>
<p>College Board automatically sends all scores to colleges when you order any score unless you actually exercise score choice when you order scores sent by unchecking particular tests so that they are not sent. If you exercise score choice, CB sends absolutely nothing to the college that indicates you took the withheld test.</p>
<p>However, many high schools put all your scores on your official high school transcript that is sent to colleges and thus you may not be able to successfully hide a score by exercising score choice with CB. Also, many colleges require you not to exercise score choice and have CB send all scores.</p>
<p>Finally, it should make no difference since colleges, to determine admission, when you send multople tests will, depending on college, either use that test with the highest composite or will supercore by using the highest section scores from the multiple tests.</p>
<p>drusba said it well. Additionally, you can’t use score choice if you are sending scores using the option to send scores for free. The free option is available for a limited number of schools (4?) and only before your test results are posted. Score choice is only available if you wait until after your scores are posted and then you pay to send your scores.</p>
<p>So, if DD totally bombed this last SAT and uses score choice, the college will never know about the bad testing day? </p>
<p>I still need to know how closely a schools looks at when a students tests and if it looks bad that they only tested sophomore year. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Linnylu go back to my post – the colleges won’t learn of the bad score from CB if you exercise score choice but (a) your high school may put all scores on your official high school transcript and thus, if yours does, colleges will still learn of the bad score; (b) you can face an issue with college applications, some of which specifically ask you to list all scores on the application (do you comply or not?), and (c) the college may require you to have CB send all scores. Colleges accept scores taken any year in high school and really don’t sit around wondering if you took it again when you send one from sophomore year; they deal with test scores they have and not speculation about tests they don’t have. Unless you are from a state that requires all juniors (or all seniors) to take the SAT, they would have no grounds to assume you took the test again particularly since the majority still only take the SAT once.</p>
<p>Will a SAT taken in 7th or 8th grade, get reported to Colleges through school transcripts or College Board?</p>
<p>Test scores from 7th and 8th grade are not reported to colleges by CB, are not part of your high school transcript, and are not used in the admission process even if you make an effort to tell the college what they were.</p>
<p>Thanks. There does not seem to be any official documentation of this fact that 7th and 8th grade scores are not reported on CB or anywhere I could find.</p>
<p>SAT scores from before 9th grade will be purged unless you request collegeboard to save them before the end of June in the year you take the test.
[Test-Takers</a> in 8th Grade and Below](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/register/special/8th-grade]Test-Takers”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board)</p>
<p>what about ap tests? do they work the exact same way?</p>
<p>No, APs are not the same. AP score reports are sent in July to the schools you designate on your answer sheet, to you, and to your high school. Each report is cumulative and includes scores for all AP exams you ever took, unless you specifically requested the collegeboard to withhold one or more scores from a college or cancel score(s). [AP</a> Scores - AP Scores & Reporting Services](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>View Your AP Scores – AP Students | College Board)</p>
<p>Official AP scores are not required for purpose of admission. You do not need to submit official scores until after you are admitted and you want college credit. If you want college to know of your AP scores for admission just self-report them on application, in essay, or send letter with a copy of your score reports to the college’s admission office and ask that they be included in your admisson file.</p>
<p>They see that you took it (and how many times you took it) but they do not, unless you choose to report to them, see the scores. The only scores (in numbers) that they see are the ones you chose to send to them.</p>