Keep scores?

Parents Forum
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<p>I posted this on the SAT/ACT board, but I thought I would post it here, as well, since you all are so knowledgeable.</p>

<p>My 8th grade daughter took the 1/27 SAT and scored CR 760, M 620, W 730 with 10/12 essay. She took it through a talent search & I know they don't keep the scores for kids this age. Since her scores were good, I was wondering if I should call College Board & ask them to keep them.
I was wondering this because after reading on the score report that scores often go down when taking the test a 2nd or more time, I'd hate for her to lose the CR & W scores. I'm pretty sure the M will go up since she's only in Algebra 1 now, but it's the other two I was wondering about. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>As to your question as to whether you can keep the score, see the following College Board page: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/html/sat_terms_conditions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/html/sat_terms_conditions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It says: </p>

<p>"If you test in the 7th or 8th grade, these scores are removed from your file at the end of the year that you tested. If you don't want your scores removed, you must let us know before June of the year you tested."</p>

<p>In other words you need to inform College Board by June of your desire to keep the test on record.</p>

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<p>I would ask the CB to keep these scores. They are terrific. Congrats to your daughter.</p>

<p>That said, I think the likelihood of her doing less well on future SAT tests is quite low unless she had a bad day.</p>

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<p>I guess I would have reservations about keeping the scores. If they are kept, then they will get sent with any other testing scores. If her scores go down, admissions folks might wonder why she did so well in 8th grade but not in 11th. Also, if the reps do a quick read of her scores and don't notice that one set is from 8th grade, they may wonder why her score changed so much in math from one testing to another. I may be over thinking it all, but something to consider.</p>

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<p>Mine never took the SAT again after 8th grade.</p>

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<p>LOL, mini, but hardly anyone does as well as your child did in 8th grade. My kid went up 120 in Verbal and 80 in math. And he had had scores in the top 3% of 7th graders. :) </p>

<p>My inclination would be to assume she'll do even better later, especially in math, because nearly everyone does (there's a thread here somewhere on CC where kid compared - the only one who didn't go up had 750/750 I believe.)</p>

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<p>I have no reason to think that she would do worse in 11th..</p>

<p>Keeping it depends on her aspirations for college though.</p>

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<p>My son was in a similar situation, and at that time I decided to keep it on record, thinking it may be useful later. Now I have second thought about it.</p>

<p>I think the score did help him to go to a non-CTY summer program he liked, about the program just asked for a photocopy so keeping the score on record is unnecessary. He is in 10th grade so he has not taken the SAT again. I am not worried about his score would drop, I don't think your D's score would drop either. However, I think it set up an expectation that may be hard to meet. There is a thread on middle school SAT score vs high school score in</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78732%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78732&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here I pick those who score above 650 in at least 1 subject:</p>

<p>7th grade - 700 M 560 V
current - 780 M (800 in 2 weeks !!) 760 V 740 W(if matters) </p>

<p>8th: 1320 (720 M, 600 V)
11th: 1540 (800 M, 740 V) +690W </p>

<p>7th Grade: 1190 (not sure exact breakdown...mid 500s math, and mid 600s verbal)
11th Grade: 1600 (+720 Writing, for 2320 total) </p>

<p>8th grade: 1390
11th grade: 2290 </p>

<p>7th: 530V 700M
12th: 800CR/780M/800W</p>

<p>7th grade: 1270
11th grade: 2370</p>

<p>7th Grade: 1300
11th Grade: 1580</p>

<p>Grade 8: 600 M, 670 V
Grade 11: 720 M, 800 CR, 770 W</p>

<p>7th grade SAT - 560M, 700V = 1260
11th grade SAT - 720M, 800W, 800V = 2320 </p>

<p>8th grade SAT - 780 V, 790 M
11th grade new SAT - 800 CR, 800 M, 800 W</p>

<p>7th: 650M/450V
11th: 800M/670CR/720W </p>

<p>7th: 650M/560V
11th: 800M/730V</p>

<p>7th grade: 670 V, 630 M
11th grade: 800 V, 780 M</p>

<p>You can see it is setting up a very high bar. One needs to score close to perfect in order not to be seen as not living up to the potential. So think twice before deciding to keep the score on record.</p>