<p>Hey, i'm taking the SAT in March as a junior and i'm sitting here wondering what the point of the score reports sent to schools are.</p>
<p>Does it matter at all if you send the scores junior year?</p>
<p>Probably a "duh" question. :P</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I remember that I was very confused about score reports when I was a junior and I did something really stupid, but here's the answer.</p>
<p>Okay, so you're a junior. When you take the SAT, DON'T send a score report.</p>
<p>Here's how score reports work:</p>
<p>If you want to send a score report, you pick the colleges you want to send the scores to (the first four colleges are free). Then in the score report ALL the SAT scores are sent (SAT Verbal, Math, Writing, AND SAT Subject test scores). You only need to send score reports once.</p>
<p>This is why it is smart to wait until you take the last SAT, and then submit your score report, and after you know what colleges to send your scores to.</p>
<p>So, for example, if you take the SAT in March as a junior and submit a score report, it wouldn't be a good idea because what if you decide to retake the SAT, and what if you haven't taken necessary SAT II Subject Tests? To send those scores you would have to send another score report, and so there would be no point in sending the first score report, (Because the new score report would have the test scores from the March SAT anyway; the score report contains scores from every SAT you've taken thus far), and you will have wasted a lot of money.</p>
<p>So wait until you have taken all the SAT Reasoning and Subject Tests you need to take, and once you have all that, THEN send your SAT scores.</p>
<p>When I took the SAT in March as a junior, I thought that I had to send a score report within a certain amount of time, so I sent it to a bunch of schools. Then after I took the Subject tests I had to send a new score report to all the colleges again (after I changed my college list), so there was absolutely no point in sending my first score report.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip!</p>
<p>So if I take the SAT I in March, SAT IIs in May, then an SAT I senior year, the scores of all of them will be sent with the final SAT I score? Pretty convenient.</p>
<p>Yes. So yeah, for now, don't send score reports. Oh, and one more tip: If you're taking the SAT IIs, try to take them all in one session. I didn't know this before: in May I took the US History, and in November I took Chemistry and Math 2. I didn't know that I had to pay 2 registration fees! I would have saved about $30 if I just took all three tests at once. So you can take more than one SAT II at a time. I wish I had known all this sooner! Don't make the mistake I did!</p>
<p>I sent my scores last night to seven colleges and wish I hadn't, I did great on ACT and not good on SAT but didn't realize until 2 minutes after hitting "send" that I could have simply not sent the SAT scores. Anyone know how to rectify this? I sent an email requesting the scores NOT be sent, but I'm guessing that will get me no where. So bummed....</p>
<p>At 2am this morning, I sent my SAT scores out to seven colleges. Wishing I hadn't. ACT scores were much better and would have sufficed. Sent Collegeboard an email, but guessing they won't do anything to help. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I don't know if there is a way to "stop" the request - you should call college board. (I think that colleges say that if you send ACT and SAT both that they will look at what you did better on, so if you can't "stop" it, it should still be okay.)</p>
<p>Thanks dchow, I was really confused about the score reporting thing. I’m a junior, taking the subject tests tomorrow, and taking the SAT I in June. According to Collegeboard I need to submit my scores to colleges within a week of taking the exam to get the four free score reports…am I reading that wrong? Or is that true, but I’ll also get the option of conclusive score reports within a week of taking any later SATs?</p>