<p>about middle-school-age young people who take the SAT I test as part of talent search testing. Are those scores still on your College Board student score record when you apply to college? If not, do you tell the colleges you apply to about those scores anyway? How far back do the scores on your score report go, if you took the SAT I as a middle-school student?</p>
<p>They are only sent to colleges by request. I'm sure If I wanted to ask college board what score I got in 7th grade they would be able to tell me, but It is not sent to colleges as the SATs I took from 9-12th grade.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the replies, which don't agree. I figure some young people who took talent search tests five years ago--there were tens of thousands of those--must now be applying to college and checking what's on their score reports. Are the earlier SAT scores on the score reports, or aren't they? If they aren't on the score report, can they put back on? </p>
<p>I bring this up precisely because I've heard more than one story about this issue in previous online discussion.</p>
<p>Im sorry that are reports "don't agree". That was a little caustic dont you think.</p>
<p>Anyway, I was speaking from personal expierence and have no idea where godofcoffee got that information (although he/she is probably right that somewhere they do have your scores). I took the SAT in both 7th and 8th grade and the report wasnt on there when I applied to college last year. </p>
<p>It wont matter for you in the least bit as they want to see you as a student "now" not in 7th/8th grade. Plus, those tests didnt have writing.</p>
<p>The answer is no, those scores arent on there.</p>
<p>Scores from when you are in high school are on your regular score report. Any older scores are archived and you have to specifically request that they be sent (and pay extra). </p>
<p>(which I see wouldn't have come up in a Google search I did the other day because the domain name is "sat.org" rather than "collegeboard.com") appears to refer to the general issue of tests scores being old (even as old as the ones I had in high school in the 1970s) rather than test scores being from young test-takers (my son's issue). To date, College Board claims that some of my son's test scores--including an SAT II score from May of this year--have been "purged" and cannot be retrieved by any means. I have heard, as I noted above, contrary reports in various places online, and I'm still trying to figure out if there is a way to get back, at least, the perfectly useful SAT II score my son happened to get in 8th grade.</p>
<p>Sorry, I can't help you on that one. It seems strange that such scores would be eliminated without notice to the student. Having taken the test early, was there anything in the score report you received about it being in a different category or your having to take steps to preserve the score?</p>
<p>I'm vaguely remembering someone somewhere saying something about having to tell CB to keep certain scores. I don't know if there is a timeline for doing that and I couldn't find anything like this on the CB web site at all. What I found is the link I posted.</p>
<p>Again, sorry I can't be of any more help. I can imagine how frustrating this is for you. All I can suggest is to talk to CB and go up the supervisor list until you can find someone more helpful.</p>
<p>Thanks, katmom, for the link to the earlier thread. So basically there appears to be a blanket policy that ASSUMES that what many families want is what all families would want. (Even though college policies for use of scores, counting in most cases only the highest single-sitting score or highest scores section by section, mean that there is NIL risk to taking the SAT I at middle school age, there are still frightened parents who want the early scores to vanish.) That's stupid on College Board's part, but most bureaucratic organizations ill serve students by doing only what the majority wants by default. </p>
<p>I had heard the story related in that thread, that one must request preservation of scores VERY SOON after the scores are obtained at middle-school age. I had also heard contrary stories, and I tried a little experiment, which was letting the scores sit on my son's record until they vanished. I haven't seen a final answer yet from ETS (which may store records differently from how College Board stores them) about whether ETS can retrieve scores that College Board claims have already vanished (which is one story I have heard), so we'll see what happens. We have paper score reports, which will be accepted and dispositive for the next program for which my son needs test scores, and he will take the SAT I at least once more anyway. </p>
<p>But I think the point of Texas137 in the earlier thread is important: I don't think that there is ANY notice that SAT II scores vanish in the same way as SAT I talent search scores, but that is indeed what appears to happen to scores from eighth grade and below. Moreover, the College Board Web site is ambiguous about the deadline for seeking to preserve scores (is "June of the year after" just a month after a May test date, or a whole year later?), and doesn't provide a convenient Web link for doing so from the page on which each student's scores are reported. BAD, BAD, BAD usability in that.</p>