<p>Suppose you take the SAT and don't score as well as you'd like. You have also taken SAT II Subject tests and AP tests. You can still just send the subject tests scores and no SAT scores without using score choice, right?</p>
<p>Not correct. Whenever you order either SAT or SAT subject tests to be sent by College Board, CB will always send all SAT and subject test scores it has for you unless you in fact exercise score choice to withhold one or more tests.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I was wondering: can you just send score reports? And not send SAT Is at all? So like if I took math 2c, chemistry and the regular sat twice, I would want to just send in math 2c and chemistry. Can I do that? Or (pardon me if I misunderstood what you said), is the what you meant by saying that you have to send ALL? (Wait so if a school doesn’t take score choice, you still have to send ACT scores even if you only want them to see SAT scores?). </p>
<p>You can pick any subject test scores to be sent without other scores on the same report for most schools. For schools that want all scores, you still need to submit all SAT1 and ACT scores.</p>
<p>Oh ok.
So if my SAT score > ACT score scaled, then I still have to send both.
Thanks!</p>
<p>You have a number of different issues: </p>
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<li><p>College Board, which controls the SAT, allows you to exercise score choice regardless of whether a college accepts score choice. Under CB’s default sending position, whenever you order any SAT or any subject test to be sent, it will automatically send all SAT and subject test scores it has for you unless you exercise score choice to prevent one or more tests from being sent. Thus, by exercising score choice you can send just subject test scores, just SATs, both, or any combination of tests. The only thing you cannot do is send only part of one test, such as send the math and writing scores of an SAT and withhold the reading score. Score choice allows you to eliminate a test from being sent not part of a single test.</p></li>
<li><p>If the particular colleges to which are applying have a rule that you must send all scores or cannot exercise score choice, that is a rule you are required to follow when you do send scores to that college, but CB will not prevent you from violating that rule (it does give a warning when one attempts to do that but it is up to you whether you do or don’t exercise score choice). </p></li>
<li><p>ACT operates different from CB. It sends only the test ordered sent when you request a send. You have to make new orders to send other scores. Despite that, some colleges’ all score rules require you to send all ACTs.</p></li>
<li><p>Thus, you can pick whatever test scores you want to send to a college when ordering through CB or ACT. If, in doing so, you withhold a score from a college that requires you to send all scores, you may risk reprisals from the college if it finds out, such as having your application rejected solely for the failure to obey the all scores rules, but that is up to the college not CB or ACT.</p></li>
<li><p>Ultimately, the issue you face is what are the colleges’ actuall rules on score choice. Majority allow you to send whatever scores you want to send although many of those recommend sending all. For any of those colleges, you can withhold any scores you want to withhold. The difficulty is the “all scores” colleges, particularly because what they mean by “all scores” varies among those colleges. A very small number actually require you to send every score: SAT, ACT, and subject tests (e.g., UPenn). Others require you to send either all ACTs or, alternatively, all SATs and subject tests (e.g., Yale). Others require all SATs and all ACTs, but you can send whatever subject tests you want to send (e.g., Stanford). There are other variations, and if you want to withhold any scores you will need to check the rules of each college to which you intend to apply.</p></li>
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<p>Also, one other thing to be aware of when choosing what to do. Many US high schools include all your test scores on the official transcript they send to colleges. Thus, if you have any thoughts of withholding any scores, even from those colleges which allow it, you need to check what your paritcular high school does on your offical transcript. If it is one that provides all scores then college, when it receives your transcript, will learn whether you have withheld scores when ordering them sent through CB or ACT. Also note, if you are investigating what your high school does, that merely because your test scores might not appear on the transcript you receive at the end of a semester does not necessarily mean they won’t appear on the transcruipt your high school sends to colleges. You have to make actual inquiry to be sure. </p>
<p>Thank you so much! That clears up all the confusions I had!</p>