<p>I am applying Early Decision and the deadline was today. I had everything in and my college has an online site to check one's application status. It says that they received my two ACT scores (which I am very proud of) but somehow it says that my SAT I scores were sent too. This college only requires the ACT or SAT. My SAT scores were absolutely abysmal (To make a long story short, I had to take the test after two full sleepless nights of puking with the worst stomach flu I've ever had).</p>
<p>The thing is, I never opted to have my SAT scores sent to ANY colleges. I didn't fill anything in on the "free reports" portion of the test nor did I do anything with sending the scores online. I've decided that either the college site contains an error or my school guidance office sent the scores to my college without my permission. (I have never taken any SAT subject tests)</p>
<p>My two questions for these forumgoers are:</p>
<p>1). Has anyone else here been in this situation or has heard of this error (either with a high school guidance office or a college admissions site), and</p>
<p>2). Worst case scenario the college gets my scores and starts judging applications- if I write to them that I did not authorize sending the scores, will they not take my SAT into account on my application?</p>
<p>CB would not send them out without your $$. Ignore your option 2 - do not write a letter. Nearly every college will just look at your highest scores.</p>
<p>Ask your GC if all test scores on printed on your transcript. Some schools continue to do this, even tho it borders on federal and some state confidentiality violations.</p>
<p>College will consider for admission that test score, ACT or SAT, it considers to be the higher and thus you should not be concerned. If, in fact, you never designated the college to receive your SAT score from the College Board, then most likely the College Board did not send it. However, you might be attending one of those high schools that put all your test scores on your official high school transcript, in which case it would have been sent in accordance with usual high school procedure and not by error.</p>
<p>Okay so I caught up with guidance counselor and it turns out my school puts the grades on the transcript. Will the college ignore this or look at my scores?</p>
<p>I guess my logic is that if I didn't explicitly send the scores then the college wouldn't bother to look at them?</p>
<p>Schools are allowed to do that. Privacy laws do not prevent the high school from putting any information it would normally put about you on a transcript when you request the transcript to be sent to a college for admission purposes. Your request constitutes a waiver of any privacy rules that usually apply to students' files. </p>
<p>For the OP, you shouldn't worry about it. The college will use that score ACT or SAT that it believes is higher to determine admission. Also, most likely they will also ignore the SAT score because of another rule for admissions. Most (not all) colleges require offical score reports from the testing agency (the College Board for the SAT) for admission purposes and if there is no official report from the testing agency for the score, the score will be ignored.</p>
<p>Standardized test scores have absolutely nothing to do with the school nor with student performance in a classroom. I'm not a lawyer, but it is hard to argue that schools have a right to send out personal data that is not thiers to begin with. Schools just can't do a complete core dump of 4 years of academic and personal information when a student just requests that GRADES be sent out.</p>
<p>When I talked to guidance, they told me (after all my transcripts had been mailed) that I could have opted to take out some of the scores and apparently I was just supposed to know that. I had to opt out of it, otherwise it was already sent.</p>
<p>I don't really know the legal ramifications of that, but thanks for the help guys, I'm a lot less stressed out right now.</p>
<p>I've always been interested about this subject. My S hasn't taken the SAT or ACT yet, but has taken one SAT Subject Test and three AP tests. The AP tests scores DO appear on his transcript, which appears reasonable to us since the classes were taught at the HS. However, the SAT Subject Test Score does not appear on the transcript (since it was an 800 in Math II, I'm certain he wouldn't mind but I concur that these should not be going out on the HS transcript, but rather on an official CB score report.</p>