just want to confirm I understand score choice correctly… You can select which score you would like to share with college and they will NOT see any other scores? Unless the school requires ALL test scores, which i believe are only Upenn, stanford and georgetown? If so, why shouldn’t students take the SAT until they get score they want?
@notstuy I think Cornell may require all scores and the UCs in california do I think too. But the reason why students shouldn’t take the SAT until they get the score they want is because it is alot of money and time. Why not study hard and take the test once, or maybe 2x??
See my last two posts in this thread showing which colleges still have a form of an “all scores” rule: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/1912440-must-you-submit-all-sat-act-or-sat-subject-test-scores-p5.html. (Upenn has accepted score choice for two years now.)
College Board’s default position is that it automatically sends all SAT and SAT subject test scores that it has for you whenever you order scores sent. With score choice, you are allowed to pick tests not to send to colleges when ordering scores. Thus, you need to actually exercise score choice to prevent scores from being sent. Moreover, College Board does not prevent you from exercising score choice even if the college requires all scores. It will give a warning while you are exercising score choice that the college may require all scores but you can ignore the warning.
If you exercise score choice, College Board sends nothing to the college to even indicate you ever registered for the particular test. However, that does not necessarily mean the college will not learn of your withheld scores. Many high schools, in your official transcript sent to colleges to show your grades, include all your test scores in that transcript. Thus, if your high school is one of those, exercising score choice may be an activity that accomplishes nothing except to prove to a college that requires all scores that you attempted to withhold scores via score choice.
As to taking the SAT until you get the score you want, that is most likely to be an excercise in futility. Taking it more than two or at most three times can become quite costly in both money and time and result in little to no improvement and possibly even a decrease.