<p>If a school practices either version 1 or 2 of "highest section scores across test dates," can I select the SAT I want to send to that school?</p>
<p>On my October SAT I got
760 Reading
720 Math
730 Writing
Total 2210</p>
<p>I took it again this January because I was hoping to reach 2300 or at least bring my math score up, but I don't think I did well on reading. (I think I did well on math and writing this time though.) So if I happen to get a much lower reading score than my first test and do not want to send my January SAT result to a school that practices "highest section scores across test dates," is it alright? </p>
<p>p.s. I'm not talking about selecting section scores; I'm talking about not sending an entire SAT result at all.</p>
<p>If what you are looking at is the College Board’s report on colleges’ treatment of the SAT which provides a list of coilleges and gives classifications such as the one you mention and separately “all scores” , see <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>, then it is the “all scores” colleges that require all scores (a fact you must verify with particular college because the CB list has some errors including because some colleges have abandoned the all scores requirement since that list was created). Those listed as Highest Section scores allow you to exercise score choice and withhold scores you do not like.</p>
<p>If instead you are seeing such a phrase on a college’s site, then you cannot assume it is automnatically a school that allows you to use score choice and not send SAT scores you do not like. You need to search the site further to determine its actual rule on score choice. The majority of your “all scores” colleges are also colleges that superscore SATs, meaning as the phrase you mention says that they use the highest section scores from multiple tests to determine your score used for admission, and thus just because a college says it uses highest section scores does not determine one way or the other whether it requires all scores.</p>
<p>So if I decide to withhold the January score from a school (assuming that the school allows score choice), that school wouldn’t even know that I took the SAT on January right?</p>