<p>If you ask to have an SAT test or ACT test deleted from your record, does any school actually see the scores or know you took it if did not check to have even your HS sent the results?</p>
<p>So if you apply to a school that asks for all your scores be sent, if you deleted a test then wouldn't it be gone from your record?</p>
<p>Or do those scores get sent somewhere with just a cancelled test noted next to them e.g. on the HS transcript. </p>
<p>Other than your being able to see that you canceled a score in your account with the testing agency, it is gone. College Board and ACT do not inform any college that you registered for or took the test. Your high school transcript is a different issue. If you cancel before score comes out, it will also not show anything since the agencies send nothing to the high school after you cancel. However, if ACT allows you to delete a score after it has already come out and been sent to the high school, you should also request it to delete it from your transcript.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input. I don’t know if our school puts score on their transcripts but I will find out. I wondered about this because of the active thread about whether people really had sent their all scores to schools and people were concerned if they did not the colleges might find out. It is nice that the ACT just lets you delete them but the SAT apparently cannot be removed unless you let them know right away.</p>
<p>I’ve been interested in ACT’s policy allowing scores to be deleted; no school has ever said that students can’t cancel scores from their record even if they opt out of score choice… </p>
<p>Some schools say that you should send all scores, but this is not always possible: for example, if someone took the ACT between 6th and 8th grade, it would be already cleared from his or her record and it can not be sent (as the record does not exist). From this implication, I would assume that sending all scores refers to all official score reports. If the test is deleted, it is therefore not an official score report anymore because it does not appear in ACT’s database: it cannot be sent, and does not go against said score-choice policy. Therefore, I would come to the conclusion that there is no problem for someone to delete ACT records without a school knowing about it (which they won’t) and sending all other scores. Some people might disagree with me on this, however.</p>
<p>I agree that colleges are referring to score achieved in HS, not younger. I too find it odd and interesting that you can delete an ACT score after you learn what the score is but you can only delete an SAT score in those first days after taking the test before you know the score.</p>