<p>I am trying to confirm something I learned today from my friend, who has a college counselor for her daughter. The counselor informed her of the following:</p>
<p>When you request that SAT scores be sent to more than one school each school receives the list of the schools you have requested on that day along with the scores! The counselor recommended that she stagger the requests so that schools do not receive that information about each other. I think this is really an invasion of privacy! Since we were so efficient, every school now has a list of every college my son plans to apply to!</p>
<p>Can anyone confirm this? I tried to contact the collegeboard and ultimately sent an email so awaiting their response.</p>
<p>i think they can find out anyways even if you stagger your sent scores</p>
<p>my guidance counselor hinted about a database that pools all info about who is applying and where they are applying to. any college could find out other schools you have applied to. this is let colleges know if students are doing more than one early decision or if they student has already been accepted into an early decision program it lets that college know what other outstanding applications the student has in other schools. thats why colleges send your counselor warnings to cancel your apps to other school if youve been accepted early decision</p>
<p>MD_Mom - I read these but the question is really whether or not other schools see the list of schools you have sent the SATs to on that day. The counselor said that the scores are faxed or sent with a receipt that is the printout of the order form you fill out. So, the layout of the scores isn't really the question. However, I did call a number from the score delivery service today and asked the question above. The woman on the phone hesitated and said, I know the answer but I cannot tell you. I will have to transfer you to SAT. At the SAT office a lot of consulting went on before someone got on the phone and said that the colleges did not receive information about other schools receiving SATs. The difficulty in getting an answer was kind of interesting. I wonder if the internet delivery is ok because it would be routed to a specific address, but perhaps mailed or faxed scores would be accompanied by the order form? I don't know.</p>
<p>Hi, Rileydog, the link MD_Mom kindly provided answers your question, but it requires close reading. The colleges do NOT see what colleges each individual student applied to. What they see is a report, for their college, of what colleges were applied to by ALL students who applied to their college. </p>
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<p>Profiles are paper reports that contain data (mean scores, score distributions, and percentiles) from students who sent reports to your institutions. Other important information provided in the report includes the names of other colleges and universities that received SAT score reports from your prospective applicants. The report also contains geographic locations of high schools supplying the largest number of your prospective applicants—including aggregate mean SAT scores, mean percentile of high school rank, gender percentages, and the name, city, and state for the schools attended by your prospective students. The Basic Profile Report is automatically sent in August to colleges and universities where 50 or more students reported their scores.
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<p>So what the colleges see is AGGREGATE data about what colleges they are competing against to enroll students. They do not see anything about this on individual student score reports. </p>
<p>As usual, the private college counselor is wrong. That's not the first time.</p>
<p>Well, again, I think that she is referring to the transaction of the day. Thus, if you send your scores to 5 schools on Thursday, the list you generate on collegeboard reads like a receipt. She says that the receipt is sent or faxed along with your schools. It is not a deliberate reporting of the schools to other schools but a function of how the CB uses your receipt to facilitate sending the scores. So, all 5 schools would have the receipt attached with the names. If you send to 2 schools on Friday, they would receive a different receiipt or accompanying form with the 2 schools on the receipt. I did read the information about the aggregate data but that was not really relevant to what I had been told or was trying to explain. I am sorry this is so confusing. The college coach is not mine to ask again for confirmation. However, she has worked in admissions and stated that she received these receipts. I don't know if you have looked at the send scores requests recently but indeed they do form kind of a receipt.</p>
<p>It seems really odd to me that CB would send a receipt like that to admissions offices, no matter what the format. And even if they did I wonder if it would really make it into the hands of someone with decision making power (as opposed to clerical staff.) Anyway, it sounds like CB was able to answer your question for you. I wonder if the counselor is out of date. It doesn't look to me like CB even offers a fax option for reporting. They only list electronic, CD-ROM and paper mailing on their site.</p>
<p>On reading carefully the CB pdf. document, if you skip to pages 24 & 25, there is an example of the "Student Score Report." On page 19, the document states: "Most colleges and universities require official score reports sent from the College Board. " See also page 26.</p>
<p>Also, the report that "tokenadult" above is referring to is on page 27, and is a separate and an additional report to the "Student Score Report."</p>
<p>The colleges you list will appear on the back page of your report, whether you like it or not. By including the list of schools on the Student Score Report, it lets them know what their competition is. Is this a good or bad thing? So for each time you take the test, the back page is going to have a list of schools. I believe the counselor was correct, by staqggering your requests, each time the report goes out to the added school, they only see a portion of the other schools receiving your report.</p>
<p>One other thing to note, the "Basic Profile Report,"on page 27 is sent to the colleges in August. So the data the colleges are looking at are from your DS or DD junior year spring test, I believe. The senior year fall test is then a confimation of your test from junior year, then? I don't see the point, other than upping your score a little bit, for the senior year fall test. it seems the colleges already know by August which students to target.</p>
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<p>Are you referring to the report the student receives (which I have seen several times) or to a report sent to colleges? Where is there any evidence that colleges see what other colleges an individual student is sending reports to? More to the point, where is there any evidence that sending out score reports one at a time to colleges would make a difference in that regard?</p>
<p>It looks to me like the "Student Score Report" goes to the STUDENT (sensibly enough) not college admissions. Most schools receive electronic score reports. The sample layout does not show which other schools are receiving scores. The OP called CB and posed the question directly. She reports that they said "the colleges did not receive information about other schools receiving SATs." I'm just not seeing the sense in worrying about this.</p>