Here’s a question: College Board lumps SAT I and SAT II (subject tests) together. If you select all, it sends all of each type. If you choose to omit just subject tests, you are using score choice as the method of submission to the schools.
For D, only one school requires subject tests but all will consider them if submitted. Her subject tests are bubble. They are above 700 but not great compared to her other stats, partly because she took one a year and a half after the subject in school.
Will schools see that the SAT I’s were submitted by score choice, even though all SAT I scores were sent?
rgriff117: To send those Oct scores, you needed to order them sent and pay again. College Board will send all sores it aready has for you when you place a send order but it does not send future scores based on that order.
Sportsman88, I am not sure what you are asking but perhaps this answers it: whenever your order any test scores sent by College Board it will always send all SAT and SAT subject test scores it has on file for you unless you specifically exercise score choice and choose to withhold one or more of those tests. For whichever test or tests you choose to withhold, College Board sends nothing to a college that even indicates you ever registered for the test. Nevertheless, you still need to check what your high school does because many include all your test scores on the official high school transcript sent to colleges; whether you can get scores removed from the transcript is a matter between you and the high school. On a different note, for colleges that consider subject tests, sending scores above 700 is usually helpful not harmful.
DD took the Physics test after her freshman year. Figured take it right after the course (Honors) rather than waiting until AP Physics is offered as a Senior (2 issues there - not sure if she’ll even take AP Physics as a Sr at this point in time and if she did, she’d only have a month or two under her belt by the time she’d have to take the test).
So she took it at the end of her Freshman year. Got a 630. Not so hot (33rd percentile). Makes sense though if most of the others taking the test have had AP.
So if we apply to a college that requires all scores…will seeing a 630 from early in her high school career be harmful?
^Only Georgetown, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and probably Harvey Mudd, require one to provide all subject test scores that you have. If not applying to any of those four colleges, you have no issue and can withhold the Physics subject test score even if you submit other subject test scores. That comes with a caveat that it does not appear from your post that your DD is currently a senior and colleges could change their rules after this year, although I seriously doubt any college is going to now adopt a new rule to require all subject test scores.
As to the four, all have previously stated that they use the highest two (three for Georgetown) subject test scores submitted if you submit more than two.
This updates the original post in this thread. There are now indications that the UCs no longer have an all scores rule of any kind. The website still shows such a rule for SAT’s but admission officals have been telling applicants that they can send whatever tests they want to send, see the discussion of the issue on this site here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1935358-sat-act-scores.html#latest
As to Florida State’s possibe rule, I have contacted it three time to confirm whether it actually requires all SAT scores and each time I have been informed it would get back to me but it has yet to do so. The last such request was about two weeks ago.
IIRC- for ACT you pay per sitting per college. (So in Angela’s example you’d still have to multiply by the number of colleges). For SAT you pay per college (regardless of the number of times you took the tests).
Can schools tell if you sent them all scores? Obviously if you take both the SAT and ACT there’s no way they can tell but if it’s multiple SATs it’s not clear they can tell whether you sent all scores or selected scores.
I’m assuming they want all scores so they can ding you if one of your scores is lower than your best score.
You assume incorrectly. No college is going to “ding” you for a lower score; if anything, they will expect that scores improve over time. As to why some colleges request all scores, I believe that Jeff Brenzel, the former Dean of Admissions at Yale, expressed it best.
This is saying they will ding you for multiple test scores to “level the playing field.” He’s being vague about the exact mechanism they will use. Obvious choice includes averaging the results, throwing out the highest score, choosing a median value, etc.
Does anyone know how College Board indicates to school’s whether they are sending all scores or just selected scores? Is this indicated on the report CB sends them?
^As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, neither CB nor ACT provides a college with anything to even indicate you took a test that is withheld. However, your high school, which gets all your test scores, may put all your scores on your high school transcript so you need to check what your high school does.
If the ACT charges money for each test, as well as each college, does CB have the same pricing? Or do they only charge you per SAT test you send? Or they send all your scores to each college, and charge you for each college?
^ACT requires you to send each test in a separate order to a college and thus you have to pay multiple fees to send multiple tests to one college. College Board will always send all tests it has for you to a college, both SAT and subject tests, in a single order and thus for a single fee per college, but you can prevent one or more tests from being sent by exercising score choice (online when ordering you uncheck the one(s) you don’t want sent).
The All Scores rule is quite controversial there is no centralized mechanism leading to confusion and diverging from to there…I recently given my SAT test its
^Those that require all ACT scores include both state and national testing . None have stated any rule that prohibits you from deleting a test. However, be aware that deleting a test through ACT, which can be done after getting scores for a national test but not a state mandated test, takes a little time, meaning, for example, you cannot choose a week before the date that scores are due with a college to delete a test because it takes more than a week to do it. Also, deleting through ACT may not succeed in hiding a test score because your high school may still have it on the official high school transcript sent to colleges.
Villanova requires all scores to be sent.
This is their policy
Candidates are asked to submit their scores from each sitting of the SAT or ACT. The Admission Committee will review the highest critical reading/evidence-based reading and writing and highest math scores from the SAT and/or the highest ACT composite from different subscores and dates for admission, also known as “superscoring.”
