<p>After applying to UNC and UVA, I was prompted to create a personalized account to track my application's progress. At each of these schools, you, as an applicant, are given a "to-do" list which is essentially a list of incomplete or missing application pieces. For me, on my to-do lists for both schools, I am being told that I need an ACT/SAT score report. However, I self-reported my ACT scores within the Common App. Do I still have to send an official score report through act.org to both of these schools, or is it okay since the scores are already reported in my application?? This has me a bit confused.</p>
<p>I’m guessing self-report gives them a chance to look at it before they get the official scores. If the self-report differs from the official score, though, you have problems.</p>
<p>You always have to send official scores to schools, not just self report them. Self reporting is optional and from an applicant perspective there is not much reason to bother self reporting. At many schools the self-reported scores are irrelevant and they only review the official reports. At some schools the process is accelerated for the school by self reported scores (for example, because high scorers are auto admits or low scorers are auto-defers in early rounds, so they don’t bother to read the rest of the app- they just verify the score with the official report.)</p>
<p>There are some schools that would block off the self-reported scores on the PDF so they only can see your official scores. You may choose self report at your advantage. For instance, you get great AP scores that would support your application but you don’t want to send official AP score reports to each school as they are not required. Same for ACT and SAT1 if you are submitting only one of the two to save money while you have a good score.</p>