<p>I took the SAT two days ago (March 10th) and am expecting a strong score (well, strong for me... 2300+). Besides sending such scores to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, would it be worth having these scores sent to schools (since you get up to 4 free score reports sent out)? And if so, what types of schools? Reaches (Harvard, Yale, etc.)? Mid-to-High Matches (Georgetown, Duke)? Safeties that would most likely be impressed (Lehigh, Boston University)? Schools that track interest?</p>
<p>You can if you really want to, to get it out of the way. It shouldn’t be a problem. I got a mail from Purdue 2 weeks ago to tell me that I can send my scores to them now so I don’t have to worry about it later. I am HS Class of 2013, so I can’t apply til August! So I don’t think most colleges would have a problem with you sending your scores now, just make sure that you really will apply to them.</p>
<p>The only reason not to send your scores now is that you don’t actually know them. You think you scored 2300 or better, but you don’t have the scores yet.</p>
<p>If you send the scores now, the colleges that receive them will open a file on you. When other parts of your application arrive next fall–Common App, teacher recommendations, SAT Subject Tests, etc.–they’ll be added to that file.</p>
<p>It’s not an accident that College Board’s deadline for sending your “free” (more like, “included in your registration fee”) score reports occurs before you know your scores. They hope you will choose to wait until you know whether your scores are “good” (whatever that means to you), and then pay for all the score reports you send. Which is exactly what we did at my house when my daughter was applying to colleges. Both SAT and ACT. It cost more money, and I resented paying it. But it was a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of college itself.</p>
<p>As for where to send them, I don’t think it matters. If you plan to apply to all these colleges, then they’re all going to get your scores eventually. They won’t really pay much attention to them until next winter. By then, it won’t make one bit of difference to Yale or Duke or BU whether they received the scores in April or November, as long as they received them by the deadline.</p>
<p>I sent D2’s scores to the UCs. My reasoning for this is that the UCs don’t require SAT subject tests unless you are a certain major and the range of SAT scores are in the 1900-2100 range, the scores are good enough for UCs, so obviously 2300+ would be more than enough. The only problem I had with this is that UC only requires one score report and I had 4 free ones. The next SAT subject test D2 is going to take I sent the 4 free scores to schools that don’t require SAT subject tests. Since I’ve already know her SAT score but don’t know her SAT subject tests.
So when all the testing is done, I will only have to pay sending these scores to reache schools where SAT subject tests are required or recommended.</p>