<p>Hi, I’m wondering if someone can clear some things up for me. I’ve searched this forum and Google, but I’ve gotten mixed answers.</p>
<p>I’m currently a junior and will be taking the SAT later this month. I’m in a program that allows me to get four additional free score reports sent (so I can send scores to eight schools without an extra fee). Since at the most, it takes around four weeks to deliver the reports, colleges will get my scores before I’m even a senior.</p>
<li><p>Is there any point in sending scores this early? I don’t want to waste eight basically free score reports, but at the same time, I don’t want to annoy colleges who don’t want material from non-applicants.</p></li>
<li><p>If I just leave those eight spaces blank now, can I use them in September-December without any additional fees? (Yeah, I’m trying to minimize the cost of applying to colleges as much as possible.)</p></li>
<li><p>Most of the schools I’m sending reports to are private, but I do have two UCs on them. Someone told me that the UC will just throw away your score report if you send it this early, but some private schools will accept them. I’ve gone on the websites of the schools I’m sending reports to, but I can’t find clear answers on any of them.</p></li>
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<p>If it matters, here are the eight schools:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UC Davis
Claremont McKenna
Stanford
UChicago
Georgetown (SFS if it matters)
Brown
Unsure at the moment, but probably a LAC or Princeton.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>You may score so well that you don't want to take the test again</p>
<p>If you don't use them you lose them but you'll get 8 new ones the next time you take the test. Every time a score report is sent, it includes all your previous scores (SAT I and SAT II)</p>
<p>If you're applying to Brown, Stanford and perhaps Princeton, why are you sending your scores so early? Even with a 2400, you're not a shoo-in. If you're taking it so early, you've probably reached whatever goal you set for yourself in practice tests, but consider re</p>
<p>No, because the schools won't keep you on record for that long (from what I've heard).</p>
<p>Each year, during the admissions period, they open up a file for applicants. If you send in your scores, you basically open up a file; however, once the admissions process is over, you get discarded. So basically, don't waste your time doing it unless you're applying your junior year (which I don't think you are).</p>
<p>Godfatherbob, I'm only wanting to send scores early because I didn't want to waste the chance to send eight reports for free (which I can only do now).</p>
<p>J'adoube and xlxjuliexlx, thanks for the information. =) Because the admissions process basically ends when the summer starts (right?), when I take my SAT II's in May/June, will my file remain open all the way through the 08-09 admissions cycle?</p>
<p>In some applications you check in a section that allows the university access to all your College Board scores (University of Florida does this). So they can get them any time and it doesn't cost you anything. Sometimes your high school transcript has the scores in them (many public schools don't have it because it is a question of privacy).</p>
<p>If you're getting the extra free score reports because you are in a low-income school district, then they'll be available to you each time you take the test.</p>
<p>So, arduouspallor, did this question get answered:
when I take my SAT II's in May/June, will my file remain open all the way through the 08-09 admissions cycle?
My son is a jr too (actually this is his login) planning to apply to some top schools next year. I guess, I was thinking to send his scores as a junior anyway because if he keeps getting info from the Ivys, then this may indicate his scores are good enough. I guess this may be naive. But, he's taking the SAT 1/26/08 and just need to know, should we not send his scores to Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon (he wants to study architecture) as planned? Is there any harm in it?
Then, also, as asked above, what about the SAT II scores from tests taken late Spring junior year and sent then, will the schools keep those for when these student's apply as seniors next fall/winter?
Thanks to anyone who can make this clear for me. These college's web sites don't answer this.</p>