<p>Regular U.S. registration, that is.</p>
<p>If you've decided to hold off on the registration until you learn your January SAT scores U.S. (in two days, yeah!), the late registration deadline is February 24; the late fee of $23.00 applies. D:</p>
<p>Does anyone else find it repugnant that the College Board seems to purposely release SAT scores from the prior seatings TWO DAYS after the deadline for regular prices for the next seating? This means a student who waits and then decides they want to take the test at the next seating, due to lower than desired scores, is going to be stuck paying the late fee.</p>
<p>It stinks. The College Board has a captive audience and they milk it for what it's worth. And what are the odds, now that there is Score Choice, that this may be happening with more regular frequency? That this business model preys upon students is disgusting.</p>
<p>I don't worry about this at all. And I recall cases when the immediately preceding test's scores were available before the registration deadline for the following test date, so this doesn't seem to be an invariant feature of the test scheduling. Moreover, a student always has time to get November test results before registering for March, for instance. </p>
<p>Below is my FAQ on repeated test-taking: </p>
<p>ONE-TIME TEST-TAKING </p>
<p>Colleges have given up trying to distinguish one-time test-takers from two-time or three-time or even four-time test-takers, because that wasn't useful information to the colleges. There are a number of reasons for that. </p>
<p>1) The colleges have utterly no way of knowing who spends all his free time practicing taking standardized tests and who takes them "cold." </p>
<p>2) The colleges are well aware that students who have actually taken the tests sometimes cancel scores, so they have little incentive to give students bonus consideration if the students submit only one test score. </p>
<p>3) The colleges are aware that students who take the admission tests at middle-school age, who are numerous, do not have their earlier test scores submitted by default. </p>
<p>SAT</a> Younger than 13 </p>
<p>Hoagies</a>' Gifted: Talent Search Programs </p>
<p>Duke</a> TIP - Interpreting SAT and ACT Scores for 7th Grade Students </p>
<p>4) Colleges are aware that the majority of students who take the SAT at all take it more than once. </p>
<p>5) Colleges are in the business of helping students learn, and they don't mind students taking efforts to improve their scores. They know that students prepare for tests. </p>
<p>From the New York Times: "Although coaching would no doubt continue if subject tests replaced the SAT, at least students would be focused on content as much as test-taking strategies, Mr. Murray said. There would also be pressure to improve local high school curriculums so that students were prepared, he wrote.</p>
<p>"These arguments make sense to Mr. Fitzsimmons [dean of admission at Harvard], who said, 'People are going to prepare anyway, so they might as well study chemistry or biology.' He added that 'the idea of putting more emphasis on the subject tests is of great interest' to his group." </p>
<p>6) And now the College Board is back in the business of letting students choose which test scores to send into colleges, </p>
<p>Score</a> Choice - New SAT Score-Reporting Policy </p>
<p>so now there is less reason than ever to suppose that colleges care how many times you take the test, because the colleges have no way to know how many times you took the test officially. </p>
<p>Colleges treat applicants uniformly now by considering their highest scores, period. </p>
<p>From the Harvard admission office: "If you submit more than one set of scores for any of the required tests, the Admissions Committee considers only your best scores—even if your strongest SAT Subject Tests or portions of the SAT Reasoning Test were taken on different dates." </p>
<p>See also a Newsweek article about the renewed score choice policy adopted by College Board. </p>
<p>Reactions</a> to College Board's SAT Score Choice | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com </p>
<p>Some colleges want to see all scores a student has ever obtained, period, but as one admission officer asks, if "a student submits a single best sitting of 2320," does anyone really care "how low were her other score sets?" </p>
<p>An January 2009 email from Dartmouth's assistant director of admissions clarifies the issue: "At Dartmouth we consider a student's highest SAT I score in each category (or their highest composite ACT score) and their two highest SAT II Subject Test scores, regardless of how many times they have taken the tests. We never discount a student's highest score, even if they have taken the SAT multiple times. I do hope that students will not feel the pressure to take the SAT tests four or five times (the data suggests that scores typically do not improve after the second try), but we will always consider the student's highest scores."</p>
<p>yes, i think it is that way on purpose to take advantage and get as much $$$ as possible.</p>
<p>i guess if people planned better and started earlier, then they wouldn't have any problem with this, but those who wait until this time of their junior year to start testing might need to take the test at every opportunity to get the scores they need for scholarships etc.</p>
<p>even if they made the deadline the day after scores were released, you would still have to be on the ball to get signed up for the next test if you wanted to.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder; I almost forgot to sign up :)</p>
<p>does anyone know if you can get a refund if for some reason you can't make it to the SAT??? I may or may not be able to get out of a drumline competition but I don't wanna pay the extra $$ for late registration (which would be when i find out if i can take it or not) but i don't wanna lose the money for the test either... i looked on collegeboard's SAT fees page but it only talks about QAS and SAS refunds.. .</p>
<p>lol maybe i'm just screwed haha</p>
<p>i think if you cant make the test you can cancel for that date and go another time, but i think that costs extra $$$ as well. not as much as going to take a standyby test, though.</p>
<p>oh okay well i think i'm just gonna sign up... i think it costs the same +23 late fee -22 change date hahaha thanks for the help tho!! :)</p>