<p>A COLLEGE CANNOT OPT OUT OF SCORE CHOICE. SCORE CHOICE IS AVAILABLE TO ALL STUDENTS GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL IN 2010 AND BEYOND.</p>
<p>Is there a loophole that allows colleges to "opt out" of Score Choice?
Colleges cannot "opt out of" or "reject" Score Choice. Score Choice is a feature available to students. Colleges set their own policies and practices regarding the use of test scores. The College Board does not release SAT test scores without student consent. This will continue under Score Choice. Colleges, universities and scholarship programs will receive the scores applicants send to them. SAT</a> Score Choice Q and A with Laurence Bunin</p>
<p>Yeah but they might be able to find out if the student has used Score Choice.
ANd if they find out that they used Score Choice, that might raise suspicions about what scores that student may be hiding. </p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that colleges don’t have a way around this. Are they really just going to rely on the good old honor system to trust that all students applying followed their requests to not use score choice?</p>
<p>And since the student pays for the tests then it would seem that student actually owns the tests and it should be completely up to the student how he wants his tests reported. </p>
<p>My daughter is simply going to take the tests as much as she wants. Then probably take the colleges with the audacity as to demand all scores OFF her list of where to apply. There are a LOT of colleges out there.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this does not “clear up” everything :(</p>
<p>It still leaves open the possibility that there will be some mechanism that indicates that score choice was used. Until I see definite proof that that is not the case, I am very wary of the whole thing. Somewhere else I read an adcom saying that the use of score choice by students for submitting scores to colleges that opt out, would be some sort of honor code “test”.</p>
I agree. I don’t see why everyone is getting all worked up about sending a score from x or y date. The lack of score choice certainly did not stop people from taking the test 4+ times and still getting into top colleges. It’s just stupid to be all paranoid about a bad score from before when colleges superscore or look at highest single sitting. Unless the person seriously screws up and drops 300+ points because they did not take the test seriously, then there is no need to freak out about this. And if they did mess up on their own, then it’s their own damn fault. If not, then they can always give the colleges a truthful reason as to why their scores dropped drastically (sick, headache, etc.)</p>
<p>“Yales Standardized Test Requirements for 2009-2010
Please note that beginning with the March 2009 testing, Yale will require applicants to submit all score results from both the SAT I and II and the ACT. For a full statement of our freshman standardized testing requirements, click here. We apologize for any inconsistencies regarding testing requirements that may exist on our other web pages. We will be updating information throughout the rest of our site. Thank you for your patience as we make these changes during these extremely busy months. For now, please refer solely to the policy at the above link.”</p>
<p>Directly from the Yale website; They require you to send All of your scores and Colleges will know if you use the score choice feature.</p>
<p>What money do colleges pay College Board? None to my knowledge.</p>
<p>Where does College Board receive its revenue from? Students who pay to take their tests and send their tests.</p>
<p>Why on Earth can colleges dictate this issue? The reporting of the scores should be a contractual matter solely between College Board and the students who pay College Board.</p>
<p>Yale has absolutely no right to make such a demand. None. If Yale wants to make such a demand then Yale needs to start paying for the tests.</p>
<p>I see this as a legal issue. Yale has no contractual rights here. The student does.</p>
<p>sewhappy, I could not agree more.
My concern is that, nevertheless, CB has demonstrated that it serves the colleges, and, therefore, I would not be surprised at all, if there were a mechanism that could indicate if score choice was used or not.
How does the student weigh the risks versus benefits of using score choice.
Contrary to the thoughts of others, I do believe that with multiple testing, score choice could be an asset to the applicant.</p>
<p>The issue is very similar, imo, to other right to privacy issues. Health records which also contain test results are very carefuly guarded these days. I see SAT test records as no different. They belong to the student.</p>
<p>It all really comes down to the question of whether or not College Board is going to indicate in the reports they send to colleges whether or not score choice has been used by the student. Again, it is the student who is paying for this report and its dissemination. It seems preposterous that College Board can refuse to clarify whether or not the use of score choice will be indicated on the reports sent to colleges. </p>
<p>Again, the student owns the report. The student should be able to view precisely what is going to be sent to the colleges.</p>
<p>This whole issue is revealing the enormous disregard for the rights of the student in the process.</p>
<p>When will CB come out and state unequivocally that there will be no flagging of score choice users?</p>
<p>There has been a lot of vague language and confusion surrounding score choice. Because of this I am leaning toward using choice, even for schools that say they want all scores, in the hopes, that a. they won’t know or b. because of all the confusion they won’t necessarily hold it against the applicant. Still is somewhat risky, however.</p>
<p>Strategy may be: send several scores so that superscoring can be used, but don’t send disadvantageous scores.</p>
<p>It seems that many college application forms will ask to send all scores. You need to sign the app form at the end stating that you have submitted information truthfully. Ethically and potentially legally, this could be a problem whether CB indicates that you use score choice or not.</p>
<p>well if a school “says” it only uses the top scores, why are they insisting on seeing them all? If a kid only sends his choice, doesn’t that suffice they are his/her top scores? </p>
<p>In other words, those that are requiring to see all, have been taking those bad scores into account and actually talking out their tale end and lying.</p>
<p>samiamy, the schools always got all the scores in the past. They have not been lying. This is the first year where there is score choice. The schools only stated whether they looked at composite best scores or all the scores in their admission process.</p>
<p>think you misunderstood my statement.
What I said was, now that there is score choice, some schools are stating on their websites, as referred to in the Yale one posted up before me, they want ALL scores. Why now when the kids have a choice if they only look at the highest why do they now need to see them all, if they don’t matter as in the past they said they only looked at the highest?</p>
<p>Not all the schools do super scores, a lot of schools are saying as they did in the past that they look at all the scores. Yale is probably one of these schools and it seems that they want to continue to look at all the scores.</p>
<p>ACT has had score choice for years. The student just chooses the score they want to send and colleges have no way of knowing. I know A LOT of ppl taking the ACT four/five times to increase their score without worrying about how it looks to colleges because they won’t know. </p>
<p>Why can’t CB just do the same? It kinda levels out the playing field b/w the ACT and the SAT takers. It just doesnt seem fair that kids taking the ACT can use that advantage while SAT kids can not. (Well I guess we can now but we still don’t know for sure if it’s gonna be indicated whether or not score choice is used)</p>