Alright, so I know that some colleges have the insane policy that applicants have to send their entire testing histories when reporting scores. I have also heard from many sources, including a few guidance counselors, that the only backing to this rule is the honor system. I have taken the SAT twice. The second time, I got a 2200+, but the first time, I didn’t even break 2000. All three subscores saw improvement in the second test. I don’t think any one in my situation would want to send that first score.
Using score choice would probably be pretty easy, but I’m very paranoid about being disqualified from admission on a technicality. (People from my school have applied to Stanford and Yale using score choice, but none have been accepted.) Aside from colleges seeing multiple SAT dates on a transcript (my school has never published that information), or “morality” (college admissions is inherently immoral), what measures are legitimately in place to keep applicants in compliance with this policy?
Has anyone here ever gotten into Stanford, Penn, Yale, or any other “all scores” schools using score choice?
You’re being paranoid. The fact that you hit below 2000 on your 1st try and in your 2nd attempt hit the much better score means nothing. What they’re looking out for is the test robot – who takes it 4, 5, or 6 times. This isn’ t you. They fully understand that 2-3 sessions will see improvement.
If all are SAT, I think college board won’t let you just send one to a “send all” school. If you’ve taken both sat and act, it is more of an honor thing.
^Actually, Collegeboard will let you choose your scores to send to a school; all that happens is a screen comes up saying “This college requires you to send all scores” but you can participate in Score Choice anyways.
At college admissions info sessions, I’ve heard reps from Top 20 schools comment that “We require that you send all scores, but if you don’t send them, how will we know?”. I guess they’ll know if your school puts them on your transcript but if they don’t, then it’s really up to you.
At Ds large school, I was told by someone I know in admissions that the computer pops up superscore and they don’t really look at number of times taken. They ask for all scores because they found that students sometimes messed up or didn’t understand how superscoring works and hurt themselves by not send correct scores. Better to send them all and let admissions handle it. Maybe at small school admission counselors actually sit down with application and see at sittings, but probably not at big schools.