Hello Is it possible to tell the colleges that I can not send the SAT and TOEFL scores because financial hardship and I want to just self report them then I send the scores to colleges after being admitted?
Collegboard gives fee waivers based on financial hardship. I am sure you have tried that first.
If still unable to send, email the admissions office. Not sure if they will accept, but worth trying.
@MedSciBud the collegeboard fee waiver is not for international students. thanks
I believe this question was discussed with OP last month, by a poster quite knowledgeable about MIT. Some concessions can be made, but in any application, a student needs to show his suitability for the college level of work and compete with a high level of others.
What makes it possible to “send the scores to colleges after being admitted,” but not now, for their consideration of you? Is there an issue with the scores, themselves?
Some colleges do self-reporting for high school courses and grades and only ask for transcripts to verify on matriculation, so theoretically that can be done for test scores. However, I do not know of any college that does that for test scores.
There are some outlier cases where a GC can attest to scores or show their portion of the score report, if there’s some legit issue- but that would depend on the close relationship with that particular GC and usually a US hs. And all it would get is keeping the kid in the pool, IF the rest of the app meets the bar, up to final rounds. I can’t see a tippy top making a decision on an international, absent their minimum requirements for reporting. Same goes for some form of official transcript.
If you cannot afford to send the scores then you would need a full ride plus grant to attend? Few if any colleges award that.
or let us say that you are the best of the best…how would you be able to fly to the US for school?
@lookingforward I mean sending the scores to a university that I want to attend not to send it to all of the admitted schools.
@bopper the thing is I want to apply to many colleges since I’m an international student, so I want to compare the amount that any college helps me, so sending all of these scores will be useless because you just attend one of them not all of them.
Your plan is not the way things work in the US.
@TomSrOfBoston The thing is our currency is very different from US currency, that’s why sending many test scores causes hardship, it costs a lot.
To get admitted to a generous college, you have to meet their expectations. I’m not sure you understand it’s more than applying, offering to complete the app if they accept you.
The competition is fierce- the whole pool, among internationals, and there will be other applicants from Iran. They routinely reject incomplete packages. You can try whatever you want. But don’t expect special rules just for you. There will be thousands lined up for each spot.
No poster can tell you your idea is wise.
According to your other threads, you’re an Iranian student with a ~95 TOEFL and “low” SAT scores whose family can pay ~$15k/year, is that right? Admissions at the colleges that meet need for internationals is highly competitive. If application money is short, apply only to schools where your stats are similar to the stats of the international students who were admitted. If you reduce the number of schools you apply to maybe you can afford to send your scores with your applications.
@austinmshauriYeah It’s better to reduce the number of colleges that I want to apply. I plan to apply again next year, this year due to some problem I couldn’t do well on the SAT but I have a pretty good resume with a 4 GPA, I don’t want to lose top colleges just for a bad SAT score.
Thanks for your reply
@TomSrOfBoston Yeah I wanted just to ask if it’s possible or not.
@lookingforward No I don’t want special exceptions for me. I asked this question just to find out if it’s possible or not.
Thanks for your reply
Closing thread. It’s going in circles, and there is nothing left to say. Ask the schools; they are they only ones that can answer the question.