sat 2's should we send

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<p>D got her Sat 2 scores today. The writing only up 20 but she got a good score on her lit. She has sent them to the schools that require Sat 2's. She has not sent them to the ones that did not require them. Those schools would have her first scores since they would have been on the SAT score report. One score was a total bomb.
Is it worth paying to send the scores to all the schools she has applied to?</p>

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<p>Mom60,</p>

<p>Sorry I didn't see your post earlier. My D actually called one of her schools re: the same question but it was her SAT I score (only 20 points higher than the first time) to ask whether to send new score. This particular school said no because basically the 20 points wouldn't "make or break" her. As it turned out, they were right as she was accepted. Toward the end I was getting really cheap with regard to sending scores...just made sure that each school had either the highest ACT or the highest SAT I score. My opinion, for what it's worth as a first-time college parent, is maybe only send them to the most selective schools your daughter has applied to...but you should probably ask someone more knowledgeable than I am.</p>

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<p>We got kind of cheap at the end also. We live in an ACT state, and DD applied to SAT/SATII schools, so we were playing catch-up. Her PSAT scores were not as good as we would have hoped; she was ill, and couldn't tell if bad scores were due to illness or if that was as well as she could do. So we elected to send her SATs to NO schools upfront, waiting to see what she made - this ended up costing money. So this past Oct when she took her last SATII we only sent scores to the colleges that needed them, but still had to rush scores to her ED school in hopes of uping her SATII total - her SATII total did go up, but like your daughter, only 20 points.</p>

<p>Just send them where you need to.</p>

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<p>If the 'total bomb' score was on the scores you already sent, I think I would send the second batch so that lit would replace it as a third score - might (or might not) help with scholarship evaluation.</p>