Stanford ACT/SAT Scores

<p>On the Stanford application requirements, it says:
Applicants must self-report and submit all SAT scores and all ACT scores. Applicants may not use the College Board's Score Choice feature or "hide" any scores with either testing agency. The only exceptions are tests taken for the purpose of talent programs in middle or junior high school (for example, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and Duke University's Talent Identification Program). These test scores do not have to be sent to Stanford.</p>

<p>although it also says:
The ACT Plus Writing or the SAT (Critical Reading, Math and Writing) is required of all undergraduate applicants.</p>

<p>Does this mean that I have to send all of both my SAT and ACT scores? What I really want to do is send my ACT and SAT subject tests but not my SAT (Which I took and got 630 in reading, 670 in writing, and 740 in math).</p>

<p>I emailed one of the admissions counselors and she told me that if you have taken the ACT and the SAT tests, you must submit everything. So you have to send your ACT and SAT test scores along with your SAT subject tests.</p>

<p>Although you are supposed to send everything, I feel like withholding either SAT or ACT is not the same as doing Score Choice to mislead them about getting your score in one sitting.</p>

<p>They want you to report all scores. You must send all SAT as they are reported at once for one fee. As ACT charges for each test date, they require that you report all scores, but send only 1 if the cost is an issue. If you are admitted, you have to send everything anyway to confirm scores. Sorry, no hiding.</p>

<p>What if you deleted a score?</p>

<p>Stanford would really never know if you hid a score from them, but I wouldn’t take the chance. If they saw an ACT without an SAT I feel that they might be a little suspicious. You really don’t want admissions officers to feel suspicious about anything.</p>

<p>My friend says her Consultant told her (and her parents) only to send in her recent ACT scores since she did better than the SATs. Sounds like the family is going with it.
The Consultant plus a family friend “in the business” are going over her essays, essentially directing them. Friend is fine with it- she doesn’t like to write anyway and she isn’t a great standardized test taker. She is however at the top of our class and Pop’s a former Stanford master’s student, so she feel pretty confident. She doesn’t want to go anywhere outside of California so it’s Stanford no. 1, Pomona and USC or nothing, I guess.</p>

<p>if you get caught not sending all your scores wont you get your offer of admission rescinded?</p>

<p>Yes you would.</p>

<p>Digressing slightly, they can see if you used scorechoice or not, can’t they? As in, if you did, they WILL know you had more than 1 sitting, etc, and that you’re hiding scores.</p>

<p>I only took my SAT once and am hoping that that fact will help me (if only ever so slightly)</p>

<p>just curious, if you took the sat once and did really well, and took it a second time and did abysmally worse… would you ever have the chance to explain why? (I had food poisoning during the october test…)</p>

<p>Hm, maybe get it into the GC rec? I would have said put it in the additional info section of the Common App but apparently Stanford doesn’t look at that so =/</p>

<p>oh… great. haha oh well.</p>

<p>squid: but what about for people who took act and sat and just submitted all sittings of one type of test? the college wouldnt know?</p>

<p>The last portion of the supplement includes the “honor code”. Do you plan to check the box indicating that you have read this code and accept the consequences of not following it (rescinded offer of admission if one was made)? Stanford requires that all SAT scores be submitted, because they are sent all on one report sheet for the same fee. They recognize that ACT charges a separate fee for each reporting date, so they only require that you self report one score and stipulate that you must have all scores officially sent if you are accepted.<br>
Having read that before testing, our family opted to use the free score report to send all scores (ACT, SAT, SAT II) to Stanford, sight unseen, as the testing was done.<br>
I would vote for having the GC make a notation about illness on 2nd test date - however, given that a test date can be cancelled completely before scores are received if something truly debilitating like that comes up it could look fishy. If you were really that ill on the test date, it would make the most sense in the moment to cancel the test as soon as you got home - not wait for a poor set of scores to appear.</p>

<p>(for the record i have already submitted all my scores of all my tests)
What if they dont know that they had to submit SAT and ACT if they took both?(I was slightly confused as initially as to whether i had to submit both tests)</p>

<p>If they don’t know, they didn’t read the directions on the web site. In that case, maybe they don’t deserve to be admitted. If Stanford goes out of their way to say, “Do not try to game the system, we want everything,” maybe it’s a good idea to take them at their word.</p>

<p>When they talke about only taking the highest score from each, let’s say you have a competitive SAT score in one sitting but a bad one in another, how much will they count the bad score against you?</p>

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So those who take the ACT first and get a 35 (or something they are rather happy with) in their first sitting, never to even attempt the SAT, they’re automatically at a disadvantage because Stanford will “be a little suspicious?” I think not. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Oh no. I didn’t send ACT scores because they weren’t as good as the SAT scores. I hope this won’t be a problem.</p>