<p>Please let everyone know when you hear something MD_Mom. Thanks to everyone for looking out for each other.</p>
<p>Great Tokenadult,</p>
<p>Again, please let us all know when you get the answer. Our poor kids already have so much to worry about, they don't need added stress. </p>
<p>I must compliment the parents on this site who are trying to do what is best for our children. Good job!</p>
<p>I was just on the phone to the College Board, specifically the SAT reporting services line, and got a supervisor on the phone. I asked him if a college would see where SAT scores were sent in the past, [under the pretense that my son wanted to try to transfer to a college and did not want the college to know where else had applied] The supervisor said that an individual score report sent to a college does not list other colleges. What students see on the CB website is a history of where scores were sent. He spent 10 minutes looking through their website to see if there was a disclaimer regarding this question, but could not find one. I next asked him if he was aware that in the past, colleges could "see" where else students were applying if they applied using the Common App. He said YES, HE WAS AWARE THAT WAS THE CASE, and said there had been recent changes to the Common App, so that was no longer true.</p>
<p>I just called CB 866-756-7346 and I spoke to a SAT rep. (again) She said that "no" colleges do not see who else is receiving your scores. She said that she will contact her supervisor about my call to let them know of me receiving wrong information (and also Rileydog) in the past with this question. She said they may need to put a disclaimer on the CB website to clear this confusion and they also need to make sure that their employees all know the correct info before giving out information that could be damaging. </p>
<p>It seems we need to be diligent and continue to ask multiple people the same questions and then we can play "process of elimination" to get the real answer. Frustrating!</p>
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She said that "no" colleges do not see who else is receiving your scores.
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<p>Hi, guitars101, and just to confirm I am reading your posts correctly, this is contrary to what you heard before, right? </p>
<p>It occurs to me that it must be very difficult for College Board to run a training program for its customer service representatives. (At a wild guess, I would suppose there is high turnover in a job like that.) All the College Board representatives I have ever spoken to by phone or emailed have been faultlessly polite, and as helpful as they knew how to be, but it appears quite possible to get two different answers to the same question--or, as in my earlier case, a consistently wrong answer--when contacting more than one College Board representative. </p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for your continued efforts to track down the facts.</p>
<p>Yes, you are correct. I did receive 2 different answers to the question. The first being "yes" they do see the receipt that is sent with the list of college names. Then today, "no" they do not see a list with the names, and in fact there is no receipt that is sent along with the scores. The other rep. mentioned a receipt but this one today said no receipt is sent. I'm taking everything with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>But, if I had to bet on one of them being correct, it would be today. She "appeared" to be much more confident and willing to help get this misunderstanding corrected.</p>
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<pre><code>No. When you use the Universal College Application to apply to multiple colleges, each individual college knows only that you applied to their specific institution. They do not know if, or where, you also applied. Also, only the college to which you apply ED or EA will know that. No other college will know if, or where, you applied ED or EA.
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<p>Much the same statement as for the Common Application.</p>
<p>So, to recap a bit...how might a college find out where a student has applied:
1. Apparently not from the Common or Universal Application.
2. Apparently not from the College Board.
3. From FAFSA...apparently they can.
4. From your school--I suppose your counselor might tell them.
5. From a question on the application.
6. From a question at your interview.
7. By looking at your application and deducing where else you probably applied, or at least what kind of place you probably applied.
Others?</p>
<p>Thanks for the recap. I've received an answer from the College Board in writing, with a link, on this point, so I'm going to open a new, more general thread on this issue.</p>
<p>[Colleges</a> use FAFSA information to reject students and potentially lower financial aid packages | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/28/colleges-use-fafsa-information-reject-students-and-potentially-lower-financial-aid]Colleges”>Colleges use FAFSA information to reject students and potentially lower financial aid packages)</p>
<p>Yea… there’s another link looks like they will definitely know.</p>
<p>Please use old threads for reference only, do not post and revive them.</p>