<p>I'm a high school junior planning on taking the Dec. 4, 2010 SAT. In order to take advantage of the 4 free score reports, could I send my scores right away to colleges that I'm definitely going to apply to? (I wasn't sure about this since I won't be applying until senior year, but I heard that you can send scores to colleges before you actually apply.)</p>
<p>yes, you can. But what if this is NOT the score you want the college to know later on? Before the score choice came out, this is the way to go. But now you want to wait to choose the best score to send.</p>
<p>Sure you can. A lot of juniors who take the SAT send their scores to their safety schools. You may not want to send them to your reach schools until you know what the scores are. If you are well prepared and you have a history of being a good test taker, then it won’t really matter. You can always take them again. Most colleges just look at the highest scores.</p>
<p>Some colleges don’t accept “score choice,” but require that you send “all scores,” which means, the score of every SAT test you take, or if you choose to submit ACT, then the score of every ACT test you take.</p>
<p>I suggest you consider two things: (1) pick the four schools you are most sure about, go to the Freshman Admission section of their website and find the details about required test scores–if it’s a school that requires ALL scores, then you can keep it on your four free reports list, if not, then take the school off your four free report list and save it for possible score choice + replace it with your 5th fav school if it’s an ALL scores school, otherwise go to your 6th and so on; and (2) do you have a track record with PSAT and SAT practice tests of making high enough scores to fall within the SAT score ranges of students admitted to the colleges on your list? If you don’t know, find the Common Data Set for each college (you can Google it) or some other admission profile of the fall Class of 2010 (or 2009 if not available) on the college’s website. What I am getting at is, if you don’t perform to expectation/potential on this SAT, it may be advisable for you to take the ACT to see if you perform better on its test format. In which case, you may end up submitting ACT score(s) and wouldn’t have wanted to report that less favorable SAT score.</p>