<p>So a friend of mine applied to Cornell where they do not accept score choice. He did not send all of his scores. Apparently, Cornell sent him a letter telling him to send the rest of the scores!!! </p>
<p>However, on CC, the consensus was that colleges like Cornell could never find out whether a student used score choice. </p>
<p>Has anyone used SC to a non-SC school and gotten a similar letter?</p>
<p>Isn’t it possible that Cornell sends that letter to all applicants?</p>
<p>Sorry. But I just love it when someone does NOT follow the rules, and gets caught. I wish they wouldn’t ASK for the scores, they’d just reject him/her. “The consensus on CC…” I have NO ill will toward OP’s “friend”, but I am a very happy camper when people get what they deserve. </p>
<p>You (he) researched score choice on CC, instead of the college’s website? And took their word for it? It’s the first year of score choice. Unless we work at the college, and/or at College Board, how could anyone on CC possibly know?</p>
<p>Let me tell you just one little thing that MIGHT have happened.</p>
<p>At my D’s school…when you take a standardized test, you give your high school code (if you want) so the score can be reported back to the high school. We did not know this, but later found out that this high school records those scores on your transcript/permanent record, and SENDS them along with your grades to colleges. A FEW colleges consider that “official” enough that the student doesn’t have to pay to have “official” scores sent from ACT or CB. So the high school thinks they’re doing the child a service. I have no clue how they can get away with it, but that’s what they do. This is only ONE of the ways your ‘friend’ might have been “outed”.</p>
<p>@R12</p>
<p>This is seriously not me. I’m a junior now.</p>
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<p>I suspect a lot of schools include SAT scores on the transcript. I know that at my high school, you have to specifically fill out paperworks to take SAT scores off of the record if you so wish, but most students don’t know that.</p>
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<p>Which just shows that a lot of people posting on this site are just parents and your fellow high school-ers like me who know only so much about college admissions and who can only offer what they think is the most accurate information 
Maybe colleges do have a way of finding out how many times one has taken the SAT.</p>
<p>Also, sometimes students list on their Common Ap. all their SAT scores while only sending reports of their best scores.</p>
<p>What!?!?!?!?!?!?! This is horrible. Is this true?? I foolishly scored a 520 in World History in 9th grade and didn’t bother to cancel its score b/c of score choice.</p>
<p>This is the first such instance I have heard of.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf</a></p>
<p>a lot of schools (including most of the Ivies) superscore, so even without score choice, you shouldn’t freak out</p>
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<p>Would you happen to know if it was a personalized letter sent to his home address?</p>
<p>Does your high school include standardized test grades on the transcript? That is the only explanation I can imagine.</p>
<p>I dont know</p>
<p>and our school as far as I know, does not include scores on the transcript</p>
<p>I am freaking out!! Someone get to the bottom of this!</p>
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<p>The College Board claims that colleges are not aware of whether Score Choice was used.</p>
<p>@silver</p>
<p>Do u have a link/evidence for this?</p>
<p>I hope you are right.</p>
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I don’t necessarily LOVE this situation. >_>" But I do agree that this person deserved it. If a school does not accept Score Choice, . . . it does not accept Score Choice. Why would you even try to infringe upon those rules? That’s dishonest, that’s cheating, and that’s immoral.</p>
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<p>The writer of this article - [Will</a> colleges know if I use SAT Score Choice??](<a href=“http://image.examiner.com/x-20753-DC-College-Admissions-Examiner~y2009m9d22-Will-colleges-know-if-I-use-SAT-Score-Choice]Will”>http://image.examiner.com/x-20753-DC-College-Admissions-Examiner~y2009m9d22-Will-colleges-know-if-I-use-SAT-Score-Choice) - claims that the College Board informed her that Score Reports “contain no indication of whether or not a student has elected to use Score Choice.”</p>
<p>yea if u look here (this is what colleges receive from CB) on pg 2</p>
<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>notice there’s no place for CB to tell colleges whether u used SC</p>
<p>Could it be possible that your friend filled out one of those boxes on the SAT to indicate that he wants to be contacted by colleges? (You know, like on the PSAT. Do they have those on the SAT too?) So maybe that’s how Cornell found out he took the SAT on that date even though he never reported the score… I’m purely speculating here.</p>
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<p>No, it’s not possible because I applied to Cornell and never received a letter like that.</p>
<p>@xr</p>
<p>Did u use SC for Cornell?</p>