<p>How do the SAT, ACT, AP Tests, and SAT subject tests differ in score reporting? Do colleges only get the best scores if one retakes them? Can colleges see how many times one took them? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>When you send SAT scores, the college gets whatever scores you had (both reasoning and subject) up until that day CB sent them. For ACT, you choose which score you send. AP scores are not sent to the college for admissions, and are just self-reported. The college doesn't get the AP scores until late June/early July after you graduate (assuming you graduate before).</p>
<p>So if I took the SAT once and got like 1900 and I took it again and I got 2100, would both get sent? Also, can I retake SAT subject tests? If so, do all the different scores I receive get sent?</p>
<p>Also, can I choose not to report a certain AP score? Or is one supposed to report all AP exams taken?</p>
<p>If you choose to send the 2100, then your 1900 would be sent with it also (since you took it before). Yes, you can retake the subject tests, and if you choose to send the latest scores, all of them would be sent as well. You cannot choose to send a certain AP score, but it doesn't matter; at that point you would have been accepted already, and the college would just be in the state of determining if you get credit or not.</p>
<p>i was told by a very smart person that subject tests are created in order to help you and they can not hurt you. So if you take them more than once you are showing colleges that you are good in that field. Of course you should improve your score if you take it again. I went from a 670 in World History to a 720. The ironic part is that i didnt study the second time and a whole year passed after i took the class.</p>
<p>Yes, don't worry about colleges seeing multiple scores, just don't go crazy and make it look like the SAT's are your main EC (taking it 10 times, blah blah blah).</p>
<p>So lets say I took a Biology subject test and got a 600, which would not be a great score. Then, I studied heavily and got a 730 or something like that, would that 600 still affect me?</p>
<p>Edit: we posted at the same time, so according to your post it doesn't really affect me if i do bad and then improve on a subject test?</p>
<p>Different policies for different college. Different policies for different admissions officers in fact. They'll definitely look at the 730 more though.</p>
<p>"i was told by a very smart person that subject tests are created in order to help you and they can not hurt you. "</p>
<p>This is not true for all schools. It truly depends on the college/university. You'll note that some schools don't require SAT scores, period... or ACT scores. Some require SAT I but don't require SAT Subject Tests. Some require both, and some will weight SAT Subject Tests equally or even higher than the SAT I scores. Certain colleges, especially the engineering schools, request specific science-related Subject Tests. At UCLA, they definitely consider the Subject Tests with an equal footing to the SAT I.</p>