<p>taken from another thread:
Reactions</a> to College Board's SAT Score Choice | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com</p>
<p>"Colleges can opt out of Score Choice and require applicants to report every SAT score. And some colleges have now decided to do so, NEWSWEEK has learned. Stanford, Cornell, Pomona, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California told NEWSWEEK their applications next fall will demand all scores."</p>
<p>Kudos to Penn and the other colleges for the right decision.
Score Choice is BS. Imagine kids starting SATs every month from middle school, and just sending in their best one.
Of course you're going to have hundreds, and thousands of kids with 2400 that mean nothing.
Due to their wholistic approaches to college admissions, the schools that have opted out of it have done the right choice to keep integrity and diversity on campus.</p>
<p>I like the part about CollegeBoard enacting this to increase their revenues, yet, on their site, they claim they are a "not-for-profit" organization.</p>
<p>Then why don't these colleges like opt out of the ACT's version of score choosing?</p>
<p>also Cornell even superscores the ACT (which has score choice). Why are they so restrictive about the SAT and not the ACT?</p>
<p>i agree with mabsjenbu123.</p>
<p>ACT, no offense to anyone, is BS. the test isnt even that sophisticated and you can choose which score to send in. i know several people who took it 3/4+ times to get a 36 and send that score in to colleges.</p>
<p>and needless to say, i think the score choice is stupid too. im just glad it's going into effect after it all doesnt apply to me anymore :P</p>
<p>"and needless to say, i think the score choice is stupid too. im just glad it's going into effect after it all doesnt apply to me anymore :P"</p>
<p>I feel exactly the same way...it would have made my SAT score a lot less impressive...</p>
<p>so does this benefit students who only take it once/twice?</p>
<p>I'm not going to say the ACT is a BS test, as I think its the correct policy to weight both exams evenly due to geographic educational differences. However, I am curious as to why they are being so restrictive with the SAT. I know they will say the new policy will give an advantage to more affluent applicants, but does the ACT score choice not do the same thing?</p>
<p>I think score choice is BS too. Seriously, collegeboard just wants to make more money and wants to entice students to sign up for the SATs 10 times.</p>
<p>Do you guys think this means that they're going to look at all scores this year? Because I took it twice, first one was not so good.</p>
<p>it's not that they are going to look at all scores, it's just that they are going to look at the best score and how many times you took it.</p>
<p>so if you took it twice and the second one was your best, then it's fine. they'll just take the second score into consideration and know that you only took it twice.</p>
<p>zester- integrity in admissions and diversity considerations don't really go hand in hand</p>
<p>Don't people normally submit all their SAT scores and the admissions committee automatically superscores them? Perhaps I'm missing the point.</p>