<p>Then I’m definitely not gonna get in lol</p>
<p>They say that they only look at your best scores, so they shouldn’t look at your SAT scores. I can’t imagine that a student would be hurt by taking the SAT as well as the ACT.</p>
<p>The Pomona email:</p>
<p>“In submitting their application for admission consideration, students will certify that they will send to Pomona reports of all test scores, whether ACT or SAT and SAT Subject tests, or both if they have taken both.”</p>
<p>Guess I have no choice then. Hopefully they like my essay…</p>
<p>Technically it’s a matter of integrity because they can’t actually tell if you’ve used score choice or not. I guess if they somehow (magically?) discovered that you didn’t send all the scores then you could be in trouble though.</p>
<p>Full disclosure is often the policy at top schools. </p>
<p>Send all to Pomona!</p>
<p>Actually, I believe I read somewhere (Can’t remember where!) that schools CAN tell whether you are reporting all your SAT scores or trying to hide some. Does anyone know anything more specific about this? Might there just be a record of dates you took tests that is accessible to the schools?</p>
<p>Either way, I self-reported some of my SAT Subject tests, so they’d know if I didn’t send them.</p>
<p>Can’t you just self report all scores by email and skip the cost of multiple score reports?</p>
<p>What happened with Bowdoin/Midd/Bates?</p>
<p>No, they don’t let you do that (b/c you could lie probably). I did Middlebury and Pomona, but not Bowdoin or Bates. I couldn’t think of anything good for Bowdoin’s supplement, and I’d probably pick Midd over Bates, so I figured I’d just go for it.</p>
<p>Are you applying to Reed? I disagree with the statement you can graduate at Reed in 4 years if you do everything you can. There are some people who really struggle. There’s this girl in my class on her fifth year and I think she’s 23 and she always “jokes” about never getting out of the place.</p>
<p>I asked my counselor if I could do a paper app b/c I have no more spots on my Common App b/c I sent the applications for Emory, Rice, and Kenyon even though I have no intention of doing the supplements… so those were three wasted spots which could have gone to Reed, Bates, and Pitzer </3 but it’s cool.</p>
<p>Bates and Pitzer were due w/ supplements January 1 and are out of the question. Reed like others in the West and Midwest is due on January 15 and is the only one possible for a paper app if they’ll accept one. There’s nothing wrong with Rice. It has residential colleges. You could just send the Rice supplement in late by mail or otherwise. Your wasted apps include Lewis & Clark plus some choices in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>SgtDonut: You definitely have to report all your scores to Pomona, but don’t fret. D took SAT 3 times and ACT once. I don’t remember her exact ACT, but I believe it was equivalent to slightly above her SAT superscore and was barely within Pomona’s median 50% range. She got in (and absolutely loves it). At the same time, there were a lot of folks with better scores who weren’t admitted. As I think you’ve figured out, at the level of the colleges you are considering, it’s really hard to predict what the adcoms are going to go for!</p>
<p>rhg3rd, I needed some safeties. I’d rather focus my energy on Reed, Macalester, Occidental, and Whitman supplements than Rice, Kenyon, and Emory. If I had better time management skills, I would have done those apps, but I don’t.</p>
<p>Some small school deadlines are soft; if (IF!) they really want you they’ll do what they can to get you, even if you’re late, but there’s such a thing as too late. If you really want Bates and Pitzer, I’d call them tomorrow and ask if they’ll still accept your app.</p>
<p>I haven’t even done the essays, and I really think I’ve got enough schools as it is, but thank you for the advice.</p>
<p>I just read that colleges can see the other schools that you list on the FAFSA… Does this mean they’ll know that I applied to around 20 schools total?!</p>
<p>I don’t know a lot about how colleges work with fafsa but 1. you can’t change where you’ve applied to so I wouldn’t worry about it now that there’s nothing you could do. 2. Wouldn’t the admissions person reading your app be different from the person working with financial aid? I doubt they can penalize you for applying to 20 schools.
Anyways, I’m not really a credible source but try not to worry.</p>
<p>Agree with vonlost on Bates…since you visited and liked it, and they consider demonstrated interest strongly, it would be a shame not to take advantage of the fact that you have visited and put in an application. I’d consider giving them a call, the worst they can do is say too late. The essay is not that difficult.</p>
<p>I’m still trying to decide if Reed is worth applying to. On one hand I like that it’s intellectual and very nerdy, it’s got a great location, and the academics are pretty much unbeatable. That said, I’m worried about the rigidity of the academic program, getting a minimum of three hours of work per night, the difficult of double majoring, the FA not being better than my other choices, and the pretentiousness.</p>