<p>I wonder if you can send your SAT scores to colleges before applying to them.</p>
<p>Yes you can. My son did and it was no problem having them match up once he applied.</p>
<p>blackeye, are there any reasons that your son did this?</p>
<p>Each college will open a file for the applicant with whatever they receive first.</p>
<p>Yes, we did it too. No problem.</p>
<p>wzzzz</p>
<p>it's about the timing. We had them and wanted to get them off. It's like a puzzle with lots of pieces. When you can put one in, you do it.</p>
<p>I agree. ^^^ According to College Board, scores can take from three to five weeks to arrive. So we sent them early also. D ended up not even applying to three of the schools. We wasted this bit of money, but at least the scores were sure to get to the desired schools in time. Some colleges do open up a file for you when your scores arrive, but others dump them into a "holding pen" and match them up when your app arrives.</p>
<p>wzzzz:</p>
<p>it can be a small plus factor for those colleges that are high on demonstrated interest.</p>
<p>My D did this to take advantage of the free score reports, and all of the schools received and retained her scores. Some had to be resent later as she took more tests, but even these served as a heads up to schools that she was interested in them. She grouped them so that each set of 4 schools were about the same selectivity level.</p>
<p>cross posted with BB :)</p>
<p>One of D's schools had a Nov 1 deadline. If scores can take 5-6 weeks in the fall, they need to be sent mid-September! So I sent them to the 7 likely candidates. She ended up applying at only 3 but like someone mentioned above, it was one less thing to think of.</p>
<p>The College Board says that if you don't pay the expedite fee it takes three to five weeks for scores to be sent. My son's experience was an average of four days for non-expedited requests. It's all computerized now...</p>
<p>People do this all the time. College don't necessarily "open up a file" for test score senders, but you will added to the prospect pool and considered a candidate who has pretty high interest (among the other non-applicants).</p>
<p>When you take the SAT or AP tests...it gives you the option to send your scores to certain schools for free. I did that 6 months (And with my AP test soph. year, over a year and a half ago) before I even applied to the schools.</p>