<p>Is there a downside to keeping middle school SAT scores on your records? My son scored 600 CR/800 M/600 W in the 8th grade. I understand I have to write the college board make the scores permanent but would any college use them for admissions? If he doesn't score as well (esp. in Math) as a senior, could this hurt him?</p>
<p>I don’t see a problem with it.</p>
<p>It might hurt him more if he didn’t take it because they’d wonder why he didn’t want to retest, or they might assume that he did retest and actually scored lower (which has happened to a girl I know who got a 32 on the ACT in 7th grade).</p>
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<p>The OP indicated that his or her son is intending to take the test again. It is sometimes difficult for students to consistently get 800 on the Math section, so superscoring would be a good option in that case.</p>
<p>I didn’t bother for my child. Your son’s non-math scores will doubtless go up considerably, and even if he scores less then 800 on the math section by a minor fluke, it’s very unlikely to matter. All the kids I know of who did a very early SAT with very good scores are/have retaken it as juniors or seniors.</p>
<p>didn’t they change it so that you could only send full tests and not sections? so you cant send in the Jan date scores for math and CR and Feb for writing? i think now they let you choose which test to send</p>
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<p>Students were never allowed to send just specific sections. Many colleges, however, do superscore across test dates and do allow students to exploit Score Choice, which allows for selectively sending only specific test dates.</p>
<p>Others can correct me if I’m wrong, but colleges don’t use (and may not even be sent) those middle school ACT and SAT scores that kids take for TAP and other gifted identifying programs.</p>
<p>My son’s 7th grade ACT doesn’t show up anywhere.</p>
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<p>One can request the middle school scores to be sent. I do not know of any colleges that claim not to consider middle school scores that are sent to them.</p>