I Need Someone To Do A Little Describing To Me....

Applying to College
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<p>Okay, I’ve been reading a lot about the SAT’s, from studing to sending out scores and everything about that. However I’m a little confused.</p>

<li><p>When you take the SAT’s they don’t require you to decide the colleges of where you would like the score to be send to. This is called score-choice correct?</p></li>
<li><p>After you recieve your score online you have the opition of choosing whether to send the scores to colleges or not, correct? Here is the part I don’t quite understand. If you don’t send the scores, then the colleges will never get it, and it would be almost a waste, right?</p></li>
<li><p>If you don’t send them, like I said above, will colleges ever know that I took them? </p></li>
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<p>Here is the situtation I’m in. I took the SATs in May and got 1560 (to all of you, that’s bad I know, but bare-with me). I didn’t know much and I ended up sending my scores to Providence, Qunnipiac, UMass, and Bentley. </p>

<p>Just recieved my score yesterday for the June test and got a 1670 (I know what I did wrong on the first test, and fixed it, but I know I can break 1700 if I wrote a better essay (only an 8). </p>

<p>So I should be confident to send the 1670 to those schools correct? Since I already send those 4 schools my May scores, they already have a file for me with those scores. So when I send in my June scores, they will just add the 1670 to the same file, correct?</p>

<p>Say for example I take it again in October and get a 1820. I send those to the same four schools as well. They would then add my 1820 to my file, correct?</p>

<p>But say I got a 1590 on the October one and decide not to send it. My highest SAT score to them would be a 1670, right?</p>

<p>Would they be able to know that I took 3 exams, but only sent 2?</p>

<p>Thanks for any help.</p>

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<p>Are you a rising senior?</p>

<p>You can send your scores to 4 colleges for free, as long as you do it when you take your test, or within a short time after taking the test (just a few days - check collegeboard.com for details) You can send your scores to an unlimited amount of schools at any time, but it costs $9.50 (I think) per school.</p>

<p>When you are sending scores, you can send all scores for all tests you’ve taken, or you can use the new score choice system, selecting which scores you want to send. Using score choice, you can select SAT reasoning tests (the main test - the one you’re talking about) by date. So if you took it 3 times, you could send one, two, or all three scores. You can’t “superscore” for yourself (in other words, you can’t send your writing score from May, your math score from October, etc), but most schools take all your scores and superscore it themselves (using your highest score on each section and combining into one SAT score). </p>

<p>If you take any SAT Subject tests, you can choose which to send by subject, so if you take math, US History, and Spanish on the same day, you can choose to just send in Spanish if that’s the only one you want them to see.</p>

<p>In order to send them for free, you need to send them in when you take the test or within a few days of taking it (before you see the scores). If you aren’t worried about spending $9.50 per school, you can just wait and send only the scores you want them to see.</p>

<p>I’ve heard that some schools require you to submit ALL scores - in other words, while Collegeboard allows score choice, the individual schools may not. I don’t know how common that is, and I don’t know if your schools are among those who insist on seeing all the scores - you’ll need to look into that.</p>