<p>When you say to send to those first free 4, how does the school know that you are applying to them....</p>
<p>Does the college board just send a single sheet with your scores...what does the college do with it? Start a file for you? (I didn't submit my apps for these yet)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I think they do start a file for you.</p>
<p>Three years ago, my son sent SAT scores to a school that he planned to use as a safety, but then he decided later not to apply to that school. He received repeated postcards in the mail from that school saying things like "We haven't received your application yet." So it's obvious that they knew he existed. (I doubt, though, that he would have received the postcards if he wasn't highly qualified for that particular school.)</p>
<p>Colleges set up a file for you as soon as they receive any material that applies to an application. Thus, a file is established when SAT scores arrive before the app and then the app is put in the same file when it arrives.</p>
<p>I think scores are now sent electronically to most universities, so they will keep them "on file" until you decide to send in your application.</p>