Sending scores to colleges?

[TexasCollegeMom]

<p>D is junior, strong grades, ec & probably NMSF. College board is encouraging her to sent her SAT scores to colleges to show she is interested. Hopefully she will do well on her first SAT but doesn't make sense to me to send unknown scores to her reach schools just to show interest.</p>

<p>Additional question- do colleges know which other schools you are sending scores to?</p>

[crazybandit]

<p>From the College Board website:

You receive four free score reports every time you register for the SAT. We highly recommend that you take advantage of these reports, as additional reports are subject to a fee. If you select to report scores from any prior SAT test sitting, they will be reported once scores from your registration are available.</p>

<p>Also, using registration score reports ensures that test scores are sent to colleges as early as possible. Choosing your score recipients during the registration process ensures that colleges have the most complete set of your information to review for admission as well as scholarship awards, course placement, or selection to a specific program or major. In a recent survey, colleges said that receiving score reports is important to them because it shows which students are interested in their schools.

Source: [Send</a> SAT Scores - Send SAT Results to Colleges, Universities or Scholarship Programs](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board)</p>

<p>Frankly, sending scores to schools early won’t help her application or chances of getting in. Students should send scores only after they’re done with testing (typically around November, December, or for some students even January, of their senior year) for obvious reasons. The only real benefits of following the course of sending score reports early is (1) to encourage oneself to do college research and get everything over with, and (2) to save money since the early score reports are free while the normal score reports require a fee. And you should send your scores before you know what they are only if you are absolutely sure you scored satisfactorily or you are a senior and the deadline is approaching and you have no time to waste. In this case the scores won’t be sent until the scores come out anyway, but they will by default be sent as soon as they do.</p>

<p>So don’t worry about when to send score reports. Just have your daughter do it when she is ready. They won’t review her material and application until all of it has been sent anyway.</p>