<p>Hello!
I am a junior in high school, and just took the January SAT. Currently, I am not applying to any colleges. But if I like my scores, and maybe want to use them to get into college how would I do that? Do I just let them be then send them to colleges when I am applying? If anybody also know the answer to this question but with AP test scores that would be great, too. Thank you!</p>
<p>If you know 3 schools you want to attend, they can be sent for free by going to the College Board web site and applying for the free option. You get this option for every SAT you take. When you finally get a handle on a list of schools you want to apply to next year, it is quite an easy affair to go to the College Board web site and send the scores directly to these schools after you take the test. Each school costs about $15 to do the send to for each test beyond the 3 free schools you get. Just about every school in the US super scores SAT so you can send as many tests as you take to each school and they will take the best score from each section and turn it into one SAT result. The AP tests work the same way for sending to schools. Some schools will even accept scores from your high school without you having to resend them. That is on a college by college choice they make.</p>
<p>You can send scores to up to four colleges per test registration for no additonal cost. However, to exercise those four free sends you must designate the colleges in your test registration, which you can do on-line, by no later than the second Monday after taking the test, meaning if you took the January 25 test, you must designate by February 3, before scores are released, or those free sends will be forfeited. After scores are released, you can send them through your test registration on the the College Board’s site for an additional fee per college and you can do that when you actually apply to colleges.</p>
<p>So even if I am not applying to the school at this minute, I should still send them my scores? How will they know what to do with them? Won’t they just float around? Thanks for the help!</p>