<p>I took SATs a few months ago and scored poorly but did better when I took the SATs again. A college I applied to for ED requires that we send all SAT testing scores history while the college board website said "recommend". So I only sent the better score. Should I just send my other SAT score since the university requires it? </p>
<p>A requirement is REQUIRED. The College Board website is not official and is often outdated.</p>
<p>The college will know if you only sent certain scores and not all and they will reject you. </p>
<p>i just sent it but was that sarcasm? for the rejection part…</p>
<p>Its good that you updated the scores and sent the entire score history- you should be ok now. Should you had not have, you could have been rejected or rescinded.</p>
<p>No, that wasn’t sarcasm. it was a statement of fact. </p>
<p>College Board has score choice and does not prevent one from using it even if a college requires all scores. However, it is the college’s requirement that controls your application and if it requires all scores you should send all scores. Thus, CB’s recommending that you follow the college’s requirement does not mean you actually had a choice to accept or reject the college’s requirement. </p>
<p>As to the college’s finding out whether you used score choice, be aware CB sends nothing that even indicates you signed up for a test that you choose not to send and thus the college will not learn of your action from CB. The issue is whether your high school tells the college. There are many high schools that put all your scores on your official high school transcript sent to colleges. Thus, if yours does so, a college could learn from your transcript that you tried to withhold a score when ordering official score reports sent by CB.</p>
<p>As to what happens if you do send all scores, be aware that if colleges are to be believed, lower scores will not be held against as they all claim to use the highest scores to determine admission (depending on college, either the highest section scores from the multiple tests or that test with the highest composite).</p>
<p>As to penalties for failure to follow a college’s all scores rule, it is possible that a college could reject you if it learns of your discretion. However, in the five years that a number of colleges have had an all scores rule, there has yet to have been a single report of any applicant being rejected or otherwise penalized for failure to provide all scores.</p>
<p>I believe there’s no technical way for them to figure out IF you sent one score set from one sitting. (Besides fraud/dishonesty and a bad conscience.) if the scores you sent were using score choice and across different sittings, they can see that you’re pulling from 2 (or however many) tests. At least that’s what I’ve heard from a very knowledgeable person with a friend in an admissions office.</p>
<p>And the “it was on the CB website!” excuse isn’t a good one. It says repeatedly before you send to double check with the college. Seems you were fully aware.</p>
<p>You’re at risk of a rescinded admission or rejection if the university finds out. And I guess the main question is, why would you want to be accepted based on dishonesty? Wouldn’t you want the college to accept you for who you are, without any lies told?</p>
<p>As to the comment above about choosing section scores from different sittings of the SAT test and leaving out other section scores and thus the college will find out you withheld things from multiple tests, be aware that is impossible. Score choice allows one not to send a particular test. It does not allow one to choose to send only certain section scores from each test. </p>
<p>@drusba Oops, you’re right! I was weirdly mixing superscores and score choice. My bad.</p>
<p>@berryyogo: You knew the institution required ALL SAT results, but you knowingly provided only your better ones. That’s unambiguous academic fraud. I’m glad you rectified this underhandedness and – for your sake – I hope the university will consider it an inadvertent mistake and not intentional dishonesty and blatant unethical conduct. </p>
<p>Everything the others have said is right </p>