Standby testing as an international applicant

<p>From Steven Academy website:</p>

<p>**Standby Testing:
If students have missed the deadline for online or mail-in registration, they can still take the test as a standby test taker. To register as a standby test taker, students must obtain an official SAT Registration Booklet (available at most international high schools, some domestic high schools overseas, and all US high schools. It is also available at Steven Academy). Students must fill out the form in the middle of the booklet (which comes with its own envelope) according to the instructions given in the booklet. The questionnaire on the second and third pages of the form (the inner section or "side 2") need not be completed if students have already done so on their online account when first signing up (although you must still complete the section on that side that requires you to copy an oath in cursive, followed by your signature). Fill out the test cost section, taking into account the international testing fee and standby registration fee (students do not need to pay the late registration fee), and fill in your credit card information on the registration form or include an international money order check. Following the instructions in the booklet, be sure to fill in the back part of the envelope and add the appropriate address sticker for the correct testing date. Students may then seal the envelope and give it to the test proctor. The proctor will send the standby testing registration envelope with the test materials directly to College Board. The proctor usually will not answer any questions about the standby testing form, and they are only responsible for including the sealed envelope with the testing materials when they mail in the used test materials.</p>

<pre><code>After students have completed the form for standby testing, they must locate a test center nearby. Not all test centers have testing for every testing date, so students must check for test availability on www.collegeboard.com by clicking "Find an SAT Test Center" in the "Students" link on the first page. Students can then search for a test center by city, state, or country. Students in major cities may have to search widely for testing centers with enough tests available to accommodate standby testers for the desired day. In such cases, students should call local testing centers about a week before the testing date (when the test centers have received their name rosters of students taking tests at their test center) and ask how many extra tests they have available for standby test takers. Students can then choose the testing center that has the most tests or a school that is the least well known or the least popular for past testing dates. Students should arrive at about 7am, and make sure to start a standby list, if one has not been started already. Since test centers close their doors to testers at about 8:00 AM, a book or a magazine should help to calm nerves or just to provide something to do while the time passes. After all the registered students are allowed in (and all of the test change, center change, and date change students are allowed in after that, in that order), standby students will be allowed to enter in the order of the signup roster.

Students should note that standby test scores will arrive late to students and universities, so standby tests taken right before an application deadline will usually not arrive in time to those universities. For example, an October test score will arrive on time for early notification, even if the student takes the test as a standby test taker, but a November score, if taken as a standby test taker, will not arrive in time for early notification. The January score will not arrive in time for about 20% of universities for regular notification as it is, but a January score taken as a standby test taker will not arrive for regular notification if the university's deadline is January 1 or earlier, or if the university is a public university (and will therefore have earlier notification of their acceptance results than private universities). These are general guidelines, however, and the university itself must be consulted, either by phone or email, to confirm their policy. Most universities, wanting test results in earlier rather than later, will often give a more conservative time estimate, even though they may actually receive the scores later. The information above is a good guideline, and later dates are a gamble, but your scores may be received nonetheless.**
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<p>So, if I read correctly, I cannot get my scores online?</p>

<p>Suppose my real name on my passport is Abc Def Abcde Abcd. Where Abc Def is my first name in Chinese, Abcde is my English first name, and Abcd is my surname.</p>

<p>Given the limited space on collegeboard (-.-, what a fail) 12 characters, I wrote AbcDef Abcde (yes no space for my first name). But when I filled out the standby form, my counselor told me to write my initials for my chinese first name instead. So, instead of AbcDef, I wrote A.D. Abcde (which took 10 spaces). So is that the reason why I cannot get my scores?</p>