<p>My high school puts standardized test scores on transcripts. I asked to remove it today but it's likely that the principal will refuse to do so.</p>
<p>Is it even legal for a school to refuse a request to remove test scores from a transcript?</p>
<p>My school does it too…</p>
<p>And yes it is legal for them to to remove something from your transcript. Plus what does it matter? Colleges will see it anyway</p>
<p>Thanks, but please reread my question.</p>
<p>In short, I don’t want the colleges that allow score choice to see my bad scores, regardless of whether or not they say they only look at my top scores.</p>
<p>I suppose that would depend. Your school is not under the jurisdiction of College Board’s rules, and is not obligated to respect score choice.</p>
<p>Rip it out from their hands and cross it out with a sharpie. Then send it.</p>
<p>^ That won’t do.</p>
<p>I’m asking whether or not there is a law that forbids schools to put scores on transcripts without the student’s consent. That’s what I’ve been hearing on these boards.</p>
<p>Not that I’m aware of. It’s an awfully specific law that would only be useful to a select few students. If it’s school policy, it’s school policy.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. I promise you, if you get rejected, it won’t be because you scored a 1900 on your first SAT, or whatever it was. They will see your 2300, and evaluate you as a 2300 candidate.</p>
<p>I’m not worried about my 2100 SAT.</p>
<p>I’m worried about my ACT and Subject Test scores.</p>
<p>How bad could they possibly have been? And don’t the schools you’re applying to require subject tests anyway?</p>
<p>My top 2 scores (800 on both Chemistry and Math II) are fine, but I also took US History (740) and another test. I’d rather not mention this test and my score on it (it’s abysmal).</p>
<p>My ACT score is just lower than it should have been, and I messed up on an especially important section for me.</p>
<p>I think you have little reason to worry. As I said before, any sort of rejection you receive won’t be because of this.</p>
<p>If you’re worrying over a 740 SAT II, then I think your “abysmal” score will have little to no effect on your application.
As for the ACT, you already have a 2100 SAT, so who cares?</p>
<p>Besides, there’s more to your application than test scores, and colleges know that :)</p>