<p>I took the SAT in October 2013 and got 2200
I retook it in January 2014 but got a 2160, a lower score in all three areas, so even super-scoring wouldn't help me.</p>
<p>The college I'm applying to requests that I send ALL SAT scores, but can't I just only choose my better score? I'm worried that if I send my second score as well, which was taken later, it'll show a downward trend and reflect badly on my abilities. </p>
<p>If my SAT scores aren't listed on my high school transcript, how would the college even find out that I didn't send all of them? Is there a way for them to find out?</p>
<p>“The college I’m applying to requests that I send ALL SAT scores, but can’t I just only choose my better score?” They should put a question about this in the CR portion of the test. </p>
<p>This is the second thread that I’ve encountered in the past hour or so asking, essentially, by “all” do they mean “all?”</p>
<p>Every school that I’m aware of that asks for all scores, looks at the scores in a very charitable light, in effect super scoring for you. </p>
<p>Also, most schools say that if you’re sending any SAT scores, you send them all. If you’re sending any ACT scores, you must send them all. You send all ACT and SAT scores. </p>
<p>I already explained how super scoring is useless to me and sending both scores would actually make me look worse…</p>
<p>My question was not “by ‘all’ do they mean ‘all?’”
My question was how would they even be able to find out? They wouldn’t have any way of doing so, correct?</p>
<p>Why don’t you find out? Are you looking for help cheating? It won’t hurt you to do the right thing at the schools I know. Cheating won’t help you at the schools I know, and if you’re found out, it will probably hurt you, even years later.</p>
<p>What does the school say on its web site? I can help decode it for you.</p>
<p>Nevermind. I’ll just send them all just to be safe.
And I wasn’t looking for help “cheating”. I’d still be sending the colleges accurate test scores. </p>
<p>If they asked for all scores, sending anything other than all is not playing by the rules.</p>
<p>just fwiw, a 2200 and 2160 are not that different. As I mentioned, every school I’m familiar with will regard you as having scored 2200 whether you send them both or not. It’s just that one way will put you at risk, and the other won’t.</p>
<p>One could quibble about their choice of the word “request” rather than “require”, but @IxnayBob is right that this will not hurt you in any way at the school. On their summary evaluation sheet of you, it will read:</p>
<p>SAT combined score: 2200
SAT superscored: 2200</p>
<p>You wiil be fine.</p>