<p>I was not aware that some schools can deny students the right to use score choice. Schools such as Yale, UPenn, and Stanford require that students send in their complete SAT score report. I have read in a few threads that there is no way the college can check that you are providing accurate information when you send in your scores. Is there anyway the school can verify that you are sending in all your scores when you use score choice? Or is this based on solely on trust? Can someone verify this?</p>
<p>nah, they will know from the score report.</p>
<p>but hey, it’s only at very few schools, so…</p>
<p>They will not know from the score report. College Board simply sends scores you request to send and nothing it sends shows whether you took other tests. However, many high schools put all your scores on your official high school transcript and thus the college may learn of the tests taken that way. Another way they can learn is by simply asking you to list all scores on your application (are you going to list some and not all if that is asked and thus lie in your application?)</p>
<p>Other than the above, it is an honor system, but if they require all scores and you purposefully withhold some that could be grounds for withdrawing any admission if they do find out. Withholding scores when faced with the rule that all must be submitted could be considered a material misrepresentation in applying to the college which means it will have the right, if it wants, to kick you out of college in your senior year of college if it learns about it then.</p>
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<p>Except that even the Common App. head has acknowledged that score choice makes everything confusing and has pointed out that student should feel free to leave the self-reported score portion blank and send scores as appropriate.</p>
<p>IMO, submitting all of your scores to schools (who then “superscore”) will not hurt you. On the other hand, I agree that it may come back to haunt you if you don’t follow the instructions and withhold scores you’re asked for. Be honest! I think the main reason these few schools want all the scores is to have some admittedly minor criteria to “break ties” between applicants, given recent trends resulting in less data (fewer high schools with class rank or at least weighted class rank, for instance).</p>
<p>Except that even the Common App. head has acknowledged that score choice makes everything confusing</p>
<p>kinda what i was thinking, and neuron is right</p>
<p>I know for a fact that my school transcript doesn’t include SAT scores, and nor will the scores be mentioned in any reference/reports. </p>
<p>So, hypothetically speaking, what recourse would universities that don’t honor score choice have in discovering that I only sent a partial list of my scores?</p>
<p>Assuming a school discovers your dishonesty, it has to hurt your chances of acceptance at that school; adcoms are human and will lose respect for you. So many kids try to “game” the system; you’ll stand out if you clearly DON’T.</p>
<p>key word here being “assuming”. </p>
<p>On what basis do you assume that universities are going to discover this?</p>
<p>All I want to know is: are there ways other than recommendations/ssr that universities can discover your SAT scores.</p>
<p>^ nobody really knows, that is the problem. College Board claims that they will not notify colleges if score choice has been used, but there have been articles where admissions people have talked about the score choice situation being an “ethics test”. Nobody can really assess the risks, until we have actual results. Alas, no one wants to be the guinea pig…</p>
<p>marvelous! yet another complex rule no ones can say for certain about, and which adds another layer of headache to the already complex admissions process.</p>
<p>But aberdeen, the solution is to do what is asked of you by the college. It is a bit more work, but all it requires is having two versions (they allow you up to 10) of the common app, one wilth all scores reported and one with just the best sitting. Why shouldn´t it be an ethics test? If some people are following the rules and some aren´t, it is an unfair advantage to those that don´t, so they should be “caught”. Based on a phrase on the Yale website “We will confirm self-reported test results if we feel it is necessary.” I would assume they have a way of finding out if you report correctly. But broetchen is right in that nobody knows how it will work as this is the first year, and because CB and colleges have not been clear on what information they share (probably not unreleased test scores, but possibly dates of testing). You take a chance at your own risk.</p>
<p>Okay, I am totally confused, so forgive me if I’m repeating any questions that have already been asked or answered. i just need the basics!</p>
<p>I thought Score Choice meant that you only send the scores you want to send?</p>
<p>Therefore, if you’ve done badly in, for example, a Subject Test, surely universities don’t find out about this if you don’t send them the score??</p>
<p>The problem for most people is if they want to hid a bad subject test score since that isn’t superscored or replaced by a higher subject test.</p>
<p>Ineed… the debate is only about schools that has said they reject score choice and want to see all your scores. Tufts appears to be one of theses schools as it says the following on its website addressing score choice: “It is Tufts’ longstanding admissions policy to use a student’s highest score for each section of the SAT (Critical Reasoning, Math and Writing) regardless of the test date. Accordingly, Tufts asks applicants to submit all SAT testing from all test dates. The University will continue to use the highest combination of SAT section score (from one or multiple test dates) in rendering each admission decision.”
However, I don´t think this makes clear what they want with regards to the SAT II subject tests, I recommend you go to the Tufts forum and look around, and maybe ask the question again.</p>