SAT Scores on Transcript?

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<p>I see. You are reading </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/download/Rollo0708App_SchoolReport.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/download/Rollo0708App_SchoolReport.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

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@School Report Part II--Harvard supplemental form

The transcript should provide
at least the following information:</p>

<p>Courses taken, years taken, and grades, including courses failed or repeated</p>

<p>. . . . </p>

<p>. . . . </p>

<p>Test results, such as SAT Reasoning Test, SAT Subject Tests (or previous versions), ACT, AP, IB, and PSAT

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<p>Well, that is a bit of a problem, as the College Board has been reminding schools all over the United States that the safer interpretation of federal law is that high school transcripts should NOT include external test scores (although many do). Harvard can’t really require a high school to do something that the high school’s legal counsel advises is illegal, so some applicants will submit school reports with test scores, and some won’t. You, of course, are well advised to submit your own test scores, by official reporting for the SAT I, SAT II, or ACT, and by self-reporting for AP scores. It looks like College Board (and ACT) should communicate with the Harvard admission office about each organization’s understanding of what the relevant law is. </p>

<p>Good catch. You’ll go far in life if you read everything as carefully as you read that form. </p>

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@College Board

A note about maintaining student privacy and the confidentiality of AP grades</p>

<p>Only students have the right to forward their AP grades to colleges and universities. Therefore, schools should use caution in affixing AP Grade Report labels to transcripts or other records that will be sent to these institutions. Affixing grade report labels to transcripts can result in a violation of students’ rights and opens the door to a potential lawsuit. To avoid this possibility, the AP Program strongly suggests that schools institute one of the following procedures:</p>

<pre><code>* Affix the AP Grade Report label to the back of the transcript and copy only the front of the transcript when sending it to colleges.

• Have students sign a release permitting the school to put the grade report label on the front of the transcript. Keep the signed releases with students’ files.

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