<p>This may sound silly to some of you, but being from India I have this doubt.</p>
<p>I have just taken the May 7 SAT. However, I did NOT choose any recipients for my scores because some of my American friends tell me that if you send a score without sending an application, the score is useless and is rejected. I am applying to Harvard / Stanford / Yale / UPenn - that's the level of university I am looking at.</p>
<p>Could you please tell me whether to:</p>
<p>a. Send scores to universities and wait for them to contact me
b. Send scores to them only after I send individual college applications</p>
<p>First of all, what your friends told you isn't correct. Though the universities will not really care about your score, they will keep it on file so that when you do submit an application, they will be able to pull it up. </p>
<p>Since you are applying to Ivy and top-50 colleges, you will have to take SAT II exams. When you register for those exams, tell the CB to send your scores to the colleges you wish to apply to. The score report they send will be cumulative - it will include your SAT II scores as well as your SAT I score.</p>
<p>If you have already taken your SAT II's, then you're going to have to pay to send score reports. You can send them now, or you can send them in closer to application season - it doesn't matter at all.</p>