Is using SAT Score Choice that bad?

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<p>I'm high school senior planning to apply to Harvard this year. My college counsellor absolutely HATES the idea of score choice (in my case SAT subject test score choice). She says even if you're applying to a school that allows you to use it, DON'T use it! Even if you have bad scores, sending them would be better than hiding them because colleges will always assume the worst.</p>

<p>Is that really true?
In my case I have an 800 in math and an 650 on lit. I am also taking two more subject tests in October. (Not taking lit again)
So when I send my scores to colleges I want to hide my lit score. Is score choice that bad? Like I said my college counsellor is just furious about the idea.</p>

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<p>You can send any two SAT subject tests you like. There’s no “score choice” for subject tests as far as I know. You can take any other subject test and use that as a complement to your math score and no one would know you took other subject tests, much less care about what you got.</p>

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<p>Your GC is full of horse manure. Score choice allows you to hide scores from a college. Therefore, when a college receives your SAT or SAT 2 Subject tests, they have absolutely no idea if you’ve taken the SAT more than once or have taken a gazillion SAT 2’s. See: [Will</a> colleges know if I use SAT Score Choice™? - Washington DC College admissions | Examiner.com](<a href=“Examiner is back - Examiner.com”>Examiner is back - Examiner.com) and <a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board;

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<p>agree with Gibby. Your GC may be either terribly confused (to give her/him the benefit of the doubt) or simply uninformed…Harvard, Princeton and most others allow Score Choice…but, Yale, Stanford and some others DO NOT ALLOW Score Choice…</p>