<p>My son is a HS junior taking 3 subject tests Saturday. From my reading of the score choice program, you can select 4 schools free at the point of registration until 9 days after test administration. After that, it's $11.25 per school. At the beginning of his junior year, he doesn't really know which colleges he will even apply to. So I'm correct in thinking if he doesn't designate 4 schools until he applies a year from now, he will have to pay for each submission?</p>
<p>What's the best practice here?</p>
<p>You understand correctly.</p>
<p>What you’ve touched on, but not said explicitly, is that when you send the score reports for free, you have to elect to send them before your scores are available. So, yes, College Board will let you send them for free, but they won’t let you know what you’re sending. If you’d rather see the scores before you send them off to New Haven or wherever, you can’t take advantage of the free score reports.</p>
<p>“Best practice” seems to me like a matter of financial constraints, personal preference, or both. When my kid was applying to college, she preferred to know what the scores were before she sent them to colleges. We paid the $11.25 (or whatever it was) per school, figuring that compared to the total cost of applying to college–let alone the cost of sending her to college–it wasn’t that much money.</p>