<p>but do colleges NEED the official score reports from collegeboard? I'm pretty sure my school puts scores on our transcripts. if so, do I still need to pay extra for the score reports?</p>
<p>I don’t know as our system is different in Australia and mine was done over the phone. As a mature aged student (I was 28) my transcripts had been filed away long long ago. </p>
<p>My suggestion is that you invest the time and fee if you are not sure so that your bases are covered. It would demonstrate your professionalism :-)</p>
<p>yeah that’s true…i just feel bad for my parents. the cost of applying is bad enough. I’ll have to try to pay some of the fees with my own money.</p>
<p>Yes. If you want a college not to just throw out your application, you need to send the official score report, regardless of what your school does or does not put on transcripts.</p>
<p>alright. thank you for the solid answer!</p>
<p>Definitely. You could email the colleges though and ask… because, (though I don’t know of any), there may be a few schools that don’t require the official reports. Unless you get a definitive answer from the colleges though, send the reports. All of the colleges I am applying to require that applicants do just that. </p>
<p>Good luck! It IS a lot of money! 
But hopefully it will be worth it and you’ll get into a great school at a decent price. :)</p>
<p>Yes, official score reports are required. This eliminates the possibility that a high school might misrepresent the scores (rare) or mis-record them (more common).</p>
<p>This also suggests that it is a good idea to check your high school transcript to make sure the scores they put on it are accurate. Some human typist somewhere probably had to transcribe them from a CB report to your transcript and was probably doing hundreds of others at the time. It doesn’t hurt to check before sending your transcripts out.</p>