<p>So I posted this on SAT yesterday- 100+ views & noone knows the answer-- I am betting the parents will know (since we're the ones paying for it).</p>
<p>What is the most cost effective way to send your SAT scores?
I am trying to figure out the best & cheapest way to send your SAT scores. Do you keep your top 4 favorite Schools the same each time you take the test? So ultimately the school will super score or pick the best? Then if you are sending out 5 more apps you pay an additional $9.50 for the rest of the applications after yo determine yo will not be taking it again? What if you took the SATs 3 times-- should you mix and match who you want to send it to on each test? i.e. Mar test- send 4 to HPYC, May test-- BC,UVA,FSU,RU-- but that wouldn't make sense would it?</p>
<p>What's the deal now that you get to choose which score you select.</p>
<p>On College Board website it says: </p>
<p>Students can select the four score report requests included in the registration up until 11:59 p.m. on the Monday nine days after the published test date. Score reports selected after that are subject to the regular score report fee.</p>
<p>Does this mean you can select the 4 schools 9 days after you took the test? So if you felt you did poorly you wouldn't choose to send it? </p>
<p>Another related question:
when it comes to sending SAT and ACT scores. When you send an SAT score, do all of your reasonging tests and SAT II's go together? If I were to send my subject tests when I take them, will the reasoning tests go too? And for the ACT, do I only pay to send one of my tests?</p>
<p>"Q: Is Score Choice available for both SAT and SAT Subject Tests score reports?</p>
<p>A: Yes. Students can select which scores they send to colleges by test date for the SAT and by individual test for SAT Subject Tests."</p>
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<p>It’s really hard to give a single answer, so much depends on how confident you are of your testing (whether or not to use the 4 free score reports), what order you take the tests in, what schools you apply to (some may not need Subject tests, etc.) and what their policy is on score choice (some want you to still send all scores).</p>
<p>For instance, my D took 2 Subject tests at the end of soph year, the SAT I winter of jr year and a final Subject test at the end of jr year. I don’t think she sent in any free score reports for the first Subject tests (too early to have a good idea of colleges); after taking the SAT I, sent free score reports to safety/match schools as she felt pretty good about the test and figured her scores would be OK for these schools; sent free score reports to 4 reach schools after her last Subject test as the SAT I was good and she felt confident about the Subject test. So, I believe that in the end she just had to send score reports to the remaining reaches and matches as the safeties didn’t need to see another Subject test score.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t keep sending scores to the same schools. I think it would make sense to send the first set to safeties/ matches. Then if you are happy with the scores, pay to send them to the high matches and reaches. Or make sure they are part of the package when you send subject test scores.</p>
<p>Or just send the scores to the schools that you know you will apply to. If you are not happy with the scores, retake and send after you have the results. I’m not sure it really does any harm for schools to see earlier, slightly lower scores.</p>
<p>Most cost efficient would probably be to send the first four free scores to your safety schools and then take it again and send the next four to the next four favorites and hope your score is better than the first time around. Evaluate whether any of the first four schools require all your scores or if you would be better off sending them higher scores. </p>
<p>What we’ve done is send scores to nobody. Most of my son’s schools require all the scores, so next fall when he takes the SAT for the final time we’ll send the scores then - four free, and pay for however many more we need.</p>