My Stance on Rejecting Score Choice

Colleges & Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Starting junior year for many students, CollegeBoard notified that students could now choose the option of score choice, letting students think that they can take the test more times throughout their junior year. This was, of course, good news. But then, starting their senior year, students learn that they need to send in all of their scores AFTER they've already taken the test as many times as they wanted. I personally think it is COMPLETELY UNFAIR for schools such as Cornell and Penn to require you to send in all scores. If these universities had notified students of this requirement earlier, I would have no objection. For many students, if they knew that some schools would be requiring all scores, they probably wouldn't have taken the test so many times in the first place.</p>

<p>Agree or Disagree? So what's your opinion?</p>

<p>Edit: Don't you think this is oddly similar to the whole ex post facto law situations? When something is legal when you do it, and then it's declared illegal, but you can not be punished for it because when you did it it was considered legal. OK, so it's a slight stretch. But it's still the whole concept of doing something not knowing that there would be changes in the "rules."</p>

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<p>There was a lot of discussion about this when score choice first came out, and it was very clearly stated by many schools that they would not be participating in score choice. My daughter is now a senior, and knew of Cornell’s score choice policy before she took the SAT as a junior.</p>

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<p>each school’s policy is posted on collegeboard.com for you to review before you sign up for the SAT. ex post facto.</p>

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<p>well apparently it was not obvious enough on websites and CollegeBoard because my parents and I did not know about it until we read it on CC about a month ago. Over the summer I frequently went to colleges’ websites and never saw it (b/c it was never official). And I’m sorry I do not frequently participate on online discussions and am not a talking-online-about-college junkie.
Because of the decision of score choice, I decided to try the Oct SAT test. I really doubt colleges openly stated their decision about rejecting scorechoice that early.</p>

<p>Also, when I first read in my school letter/CollegeBoard’s website/newspapers, there was no discussion or mention that schools would be rejecting it.</p>

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<p>From CollegeBoard website…</p>

<p>“Additionally, you can download the SAT Score-Use Practices List (.pdf/1.8MB), which provides an alphabetical listing of score-use practices of colleges and scholarship programs which have submitted score-use practices as of July 2009.”</p>

<p>This list was revised in July, but was available in an earlier version since Score Choice was introduced last (school) year.</p>

<p>Here’s the link…</p>

<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;

<p>Although it is clearly stated, I do agree that it’s confusing and rather deceptive on CollegeBoard’s part. But that way they get more students to take the test, and then they make more money. That’s why my daughter only took the ACT (and unfortunately, the required subject tests)</p>

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<p>This was basically a repost of JustAMom’s last post.</p>

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<p>I guess I just wish I was more informed beforehand. But oh well, can’t do much about it now. Thanks for all of the replies/opinions so far!</p>

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<p>Is it unfair? No. Is it Cornell’s fault? No. </p>

<p>I don’t see what the big deal with sending all your scores in is. EVERYONE before you has had to, and they all still got into college…</p>

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<p>^The difference is that the OP thought that he could use score choice when he took his SAT’s, so he decided to take more. If the OP knew that he wasn’t allowed to use score choice, then he wouldn’t have taken so many SAT’s.</p>

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<p>Then next time make sure that what you think is the truth is actually the full truth.</p>

<p>It has been clearly stated that the collegeboard has been fairly transparent that it was ultimately the discretion of the college to determine whether score choice would be implemented.</p>

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<p>^Who wants to spend 2 hours googling that when one could spend that 2 hours studying for SAT’s?</p>

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<p>okay, [Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sat+score+choice]Let”>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sat+score+choice)</p>

<p>now go to the first link.
It’s right there.
On the first page.
After a google search.</p>

<p>Did that take me 2 hours? Not nearly. Did it even take me 5 minutes? Nope.</p>

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<p>Was the list even complete when they announced it though?</p>

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<p>…did you study for the SATs 24-7? you couldn’t take two hours out of ANY day (actually, judging by chendrix’s post - far less than 2 hours) and check that very important detail? keep in mind that, in college, no one’s going to hold your hand and tell you what you need to do. it’s your own responsibility to verify things.</p>

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<p>" no one’s going to hold your hand and tell you what you need to do. it’s your own responsibility to verify things."</p>

<p>I wish high school was like that. lol</p>

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<p>Once you get to college, you will realize that High school very much was hand-holding.</p>

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<p>Chendrix, why all the hate for the OP? I honestly feel bad for him. I probably would have taken it more times too, but after scoring the same score twice, I realized it was pretty pointless.</p>

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<p>It’s not the op, it’s the op’s mentality that I hate.</p>

<p>He/she saw that there would be a score choice option, thought he could take the SAT as many times as he wanted with no consequences and try to game the system, found out later that oh wait some schools actually care that you don’t try to game the system, and then gets ****ed off at the school?</p>

<p>What kind of overprivileged mentality breeds that kind of thought train?</p>

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<p>ah thats true, he really isn’t taking much responsibility.</p>

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<p>But chendrix is sort of overdoing it with the condescending comments. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t call 4 times “as many times as he wants.” It still costs money (up in Canada, it costs like 100 bucks each time, which is like insane) and time to take it. If you think about it, 4 times could be like once in sophomore, twice in junior and once in senior. </p>

<p>Some scholarship or enrichment programs require SAT scores, so I wouldn’t blame anyone for taking it 3-4 times especially if he/she needed a good score in sophomore. </p>

<p>With Score Choice, people might consider taking it ONE more time, but I highly doubt it would make people take it like 3 more times.</p>