Collegeboard said I have 4 free ones?
Score reports are the SAT scores you received on the test. You should send them about the time you apply or if you are applying at the last minute a month before the deadline.
If I am applying next year what should I do @TomSrOfBoston
Aren’t the four free ones the ones you designate before actually taking the test? So you can’t see what they are before sending them…
@intparent I don’t understand what you are saying? I am applying to US colleges next year, but I am taking the SAT in Jan I am told that I only have until Feb 2016.
When you take the SAT, you can designate 4 colleges to receive your scores for free from that sitting. But you have to pick which colleges prior to seeing your scores. What if you hope to get a 2100, and you get a 1950? That 1950 would be sent to the 4 schools you picked, when you would rather take the test again and just send the later (hopefully better) score. You can wait until you are done testing, THEN pick which scores to send to which schools. But that costs money to do it that way (it is called Score Choice).
@intparent Wow that is a cash cow, if I have ever seen it. I am only giving the 2400 SAT once, so I would probably do that then. And choose the schools now. Thank you for your reply.
@intparent, he might have used a SAT fee waiver which gives you four free lifetime score reports.
My D took the SAT in Jan and May of junior year with a SAT fee waiver. When she applied to college in Aug of junior year she could use her free score report.
Yes, that could also be the case. And OP, CollegeBoard is one big cash cow. 
@mommdc nope too complicated a process to go through, still haven’t heard back for access arrangements yet.
Am I supposed to know which colleges to go for before I send score choice.
For the free ones you get when you take the test (without the waiver), you can change the schools right up until the test date for sure, and maybe for a few days after? Someone who has taken it recently might know… I am not sure.
Oh I see, if the test date is Jan 23, you can send four free scores with registration or up to 9 days after the test date, so that would be Feb 1, 2016.
If you are not applying to schools yet, you will not be able to use these and will have to pay to send them next fall.
But if you did well on the PSAT you could make sure to put the code of the NMSC on your test when you take it in Jan so they will have it.
should they be sent after my final sat/sat 2 test?
Above was quoted from this website: https://sat.collegeboard.org/register/sat-fee-waivers
omg I have done it all, it says it will send them when ready. But I intend to write SAT 2’s later on. Will that be a problem?
I am international… THank you for you help
The part about not applying to schools yet isn’t exactly true. Schools will save what you send. They don’t need an application to match it to. So if you THINK you know where you are going to apply, you can send them. If no app is ever received, the colleges don’t care. This has been going on since the time of the dinosaurs – I recently came across my own SAT score report since 1979, and got a laugh out of my four free choices.
I think you probably have the same “four free” choice when you take subject tests.
You do really want to think this through. You are taking subject tests, which says that you are likely applying to some top schools. Most students at top schools test more than once to ge the scores they want, including subject tests. Maybe half a dozen schools require ALL scores be sent, but the rest don’t. If you bomb the SAT, you run the risk of putting a poor score in front of them that doesn’t have to be shown. Thst is why so many students don’t use their four free reports, but wait until they are done testing and use score choice then. You can’t necessarily count on practice tests giving you an accurate read, either,
Ok, I guess I was wrong about that. But later scores will have to be sent again.
SAT subject tests, I 'm not sure, do they send them together with SAT I scores in the same score report?
If you pick the four free ones for a given testing date, I think they just send whatever scores there are from that date (not previous sittings).