<p>Here's the deal:
Took the December SAT II. Didn't get a score I wanted. Retaking in January. Sent the December score to Yale because it wants all scores.</p>
<p>But, now, on the Common App it says:
Please list only the best SAT Subject, AP, and IB exam scores taken to date. For example, if you've taken SAT American History twice, list only the sitting with the highest score. After reporting your best scores per test to date, you may list exams you plan to take in the future and leave the score blank.</p>
<p>Now, 'to date' means including the December test date. So, I intended on 'hiding' that score from all the other schools that I'm applying to that use score choice. So, I'm really confused.</p>
<p>What do I do? I think that this section may be for each individual school, so perhaps I could show the Dec. SAT II score for Yale, but on this part for the rest hide it?</p>
<p>Is that 'cheating'? I don't understand this situation. Score choice doesn't seem to apply.</p>
<p>^I’m in a similar situation, except I only want to show my ACT score, which is far better than my SAT score. I am not putting any of my SAT scores down. And I’m doing this for 2 reasons, I don’t want colleges to see any of my SAT scores (as they are quite uselss to me right now), and the reported scores on the common app are quite useless since all colleges require official score reports.</p>
<p>However, for the colleges that do no use score choice, I am sending all of my SAT and ACT scores, but I am simply not putting them on the common app. I do not think this is a violation of their score choice policy since they are technically still receiving all of my scores.</p>
<p>^Yeah but I heard it’s not good to switch common apps between schools, apparently the school gets notified if you are sending an alternate common app. </p>
<p>I found the simple solution is to not even self report any SAT scores, just let the official reports do it. This way, you can control which individual colleges see what.</p>
<p>Yes, you can make multiple Common Apps. You can make one specifically for Yale with all your SAT scores and another for the rest of your schools. You can make up to 10 different Common Apps.</p>
<p>^I want to submit an extended resume to Brown for the PLME program. So, can I just upload the document under additional information for ONLY Brown and no other schools? </p>
<p>(right now, I have all the schools one 1 ‘version’, but can I flip through each school and make changes?)</p>
<p>^No. Brown and Yale wanted payments before, so I have paid for those 2 schools. H, Dartmouth, and Columbia need supplements first.</p>
<p>So, as of now, Brown and Yale are paid for. So, If do make a new version for the the other 4 (non-Brown ones), the would the Yale payment reflect? </p>
<p>Basically, I don’t want the others getting the extended resume that is specific to PLME at Brown.</p>
<p>EDIT: Is the only way to try and and find out? (make new version, add Yale to college, see if payment reflects, if not…then no extended PLME resume, if it does, horray?)</p>
<p>Yes, it should still indicate you paid for Yale. Did you save the transaction? Should have been emailed to your CommonApp email. Regardless if you already paid and saved the receipt you should be fine even if CommonApp is slow to update.</p>
<p>Yes, I have the email and printed the transaction. </p>
<p>So, shouldn’t it reflect immediately? If it doesn’t then I cannot even apply because payments are required first? </p>
<p>I’m going to try right now and see what happens. Stay online for a bit longer please :P</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, I get this:
The Common Application should generally be completed once, with identical copies sent to all colleges. If you wish to create and submit an alternate version of your Common Application, please affirm the following:</p>
<p>Required I am creating an alternate version of my application to 1) correct an error I discovered after submission, or 2) provide new information not available when I first submitted my application.</p>
<p>Required I understand that it is not necessary to nor should I “customize” my Common Application for individual colleges. Individual college supplements and supplemental essay questions should be used to provide special information to different colleges. </p>
<p>So, will the schools I’m applying to see that it is not an original version?
If so, are there repercussions?</p>
<p>YES! CommonApp is THE best! You can simply make a new version then go on the older version and HIT ‘Move College’ —> switch it to the newer version. DONE!</p>
Why are you sending SAT scores too (unless the school asks for all SATs and ACTs)? Not sending any SAT scores by definition is not using score choice. Otherwise, walking around your house or doing anything would be using score choice.</p>
<p>The definition of score choice is: Score Choice is a score-reporting feature that gives students the option to choose the SAT scores by test date and SAT Subject Test scores by individual test that they send to colleges.</p>
<p>“Choosing” means to discriminate betweens scores which is score choice. By this definition, selecting no SAT scores or selecting all SAT scores does not use score choice. If someone randomly called Collegeboard, had the person uncheck every SAT test and told them to send nothing to colleges, this would not use score choice.</p>