<p>Another little "FYI" I just discovered. With the newness of College Board's SAT "Score Choice", I'm sure there will be a lot of pitfalls along the way as we learn the ins-and-outs.</p>
<p>My D has 2210 SAT I, and SAT IIs of 780, 750 ... then one big 620 SAT II bomb. Three are required for Harvard and Oxford. So she was hoping to better that crazy one in the Fall and pretend it never happened...you know, Score Choice.</p>
<p>But her college counselor just told us that they record all the standardized scores that are sent to the school and submit them to all colleges along with her grade transcript. Had we known this, perhaps we would have had the scores withheld from the school (IF that is even possible, I haven't looked into it).</p>
<p>I'd obviously been wrong to unknowingly advise her that she could take the tests without the results causing harm, (except for those colleges who don't accept Score Choice...but Harvard...her first choice...does). </p>
<p>So now, too late, for her, it is NO Choice. </p>
<p>Well, if they only require three, I’m assuming that they’ll only look at her TOP three subject tests (correct me if I’m wrong). Yeah, it sucks to have the 620, but from what I gather, it won’t tip her admissions either way.</p>
<p>Karabee…while it would SEEM it didn’t matter, in the upper tier, it does. </p>
<p>But I’m making the comment just to make others aware of this fact. Because it’s not something about which we were informed, and I’m hoping others might benefit from the knowledge.</p>
<p>at my school, when you request for transcripts to be sent to colleges
there is an option to have standardized test scores appear on it or not.</p>
<p>and it’s pretty common in for schools to do this i think because most of the time
colleges disregard what ever test scores show up on the transcript because
they only accept official score reports (you know, such as score choice).</p>
<p>so there might be a way to make that 620 disappear ha ha
cause i got a 550 and harvard will never know haha</p>
It’s possible to put no school code the first time a SAT test is taken. Schools that plaster the standardized testing scores on transcripts are doing it against College Board’s advice. If you look on the College Board website, you can find this recommendation. This topic has been discussed on CC for several years, but this is the year that schools might finally begin to see that this is a problem (since this is the first class of college applicants in recent years to have the advantage of score choice).</p>