<p>on the subject of your sat score reports shwing where you else you sent scores too- i don't know, but i think i remember when i sent my PSATs, the letter said something about how i could send the scores to 2 schools, both of which would not be informed of the other school.
i'll try and find the letter.</p>
<p>I wonder if one of the admissions officers visiting the board would weigh in on this discussion. Clearly admissions officers know whether or not they receive this information from the CB.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to hear from current admission officers on this subject. To date, I have no reason to believe that College Board sends INDIVIDUAL lists of where else each applicant sends scores matched to each applicant's name. I am quite sure that each college gets an overlap list showing in aggregate what other colleges receive score reports from students who report scores to that college. And I don't worry about this nearly as much as some people seem to worry about it.</p>
<p>They do not deliberately generate an individual report (AFAIK) but they do send a receipt - your order form - with the scores. If you send to other schools on the same day the list goes ala the receipt. Maybe everyone throws it away? Who knows. I do think it is worrisome because there is a presumption of privacy in the application process. Would you worry if on the day you mailed out 12 job resumes, using an aggregate order form at the post office, that they sent the list to every one of the companies you were applying to? This is an application process - it is personal and students, largely under l8, undoubtedly presume that their application is private, and are entitled to some rights of privacy unless informed otherwise, IMNSHO.</p>
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<p>Yes, I recall that you said in another thread (earlier in this thread?) that someone has told you this, but that's contrary to my impression from reading College Board webpages and from reading many other CC threads. I agree with your appeal to admission officers to let us know. Oh, I should mention too that I've never read of any such thing in any book I've read about the college admission process, and I have read most of those that are currently available.</p>
<p>Well, it's not like someone in the admissions office who sees this list of schools will think, "Well golly gee, I am completely and utterly SHOCKED that a student would apply to other [good, tough] schools! NOBODY does that!"</p>
<p>I don't think that is the point, newest newb. The point is that the information is actually printed on the application because it has some value in the admissions process. What is the value? It is quite possible that it impacts the admissions process. If it is just for data gathering, it doesn't belong on the application IMNSHO.</p>
<p>"Oh, I should mention too that I've never read of any such thing in any book I've read about the college admission process, and I have read most of those that are currently available." (How do you copy these quotes in gray???)</p>
<p>I have also read numerous books and not seen it mentioned but that does not surprise me. If the book wasn't written by someone who used to work for the CB or a recently departed (from the college) admissions officer who is big on details, I am not sure we would learn that informatio from a book.</p>
<p>From the horse's mouth I was told that the cumulative score report was created at the request of the colleges, not for the convenience of the CB. Doesn't that put a different light on the concept of superscoring? Someone isn't being forthright here - whom should the students believe?</p>
<p>The Rice supplement actually poses this question. However, Rice is a top choice school for me, and I mentioned that, but I also listed some of the schools that I was applying to/thinking about applying to. Not all, though, because that would probably not fit the number of characters allowed ;).</p>
<p>Rileydog,</p>
<p>Thank you! I agree this has to have some value to the admissions people or they wouldn't want to filter through more info (they already have enough). I hope it somehow works in favor of the student. I must admit, I was a bit surprised when I called collegeboard and asked myself.</p>
<p>Honestly, guitars101, I am shocked that you got a straight answer from the college board but I await the written response, not because I do not believe you, but because they have given me four different answers to my question and something in writing seems contrary to their style.</p>
<p>I hardly doubt that an admissions officer will toss out your application because you declined to answer an optional question. They want to know where you have been accepted so they don't waste an admissions spot on you if they know you won't be going to their school.</p>
<p>Just to review information that was posted in another thread, the definitive answer from College Board is that colleges do NOT know, from College Board, on the individual level which students apply to which other colleges. That is not reported to colleges at all by College Board. What College Board DOES report to colleges is the aggregate list of ALL "overlap" colleges for the group of test-takers who have also submitted test scores to that college. That's no big deal to the individual student, as every college knows that prudent students apply to other colleges and has some idea what the "overlap" colleges are already.</p>