<p>I'm planning on taking the January SAT. I probably won't do that well, but people say you should take the SAT as many times as possible. Will you have to report all your scores when you apply to college? Or can you just take it as a sort of practice and not let them see the scores when you apply?</p>
<p>When you order an official score report through College Board, all curent and past test scores it has for you are sent unless you exercise score choice and uncheck (in the on-line form) a particular test so it is not sent. If you choose not to send a particular test score, CB does nothing to inform college that you took that test.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, a number of colleges require you to submit all scores and thus you must do so to comply with their application rules. Others allow you to use score choice and not send a score.</p>
<p>ALSO, preventing CB from sending a score may not accomplish your desired goal of concealing a score. You need to check with your high school. Many put all your test scores on your offical high school transcript that is sent to colleges as part of your application process. Thus, what can happen to a student who tries to hide a score from a college that requires all scores by not having CB send it is that the score will not come from CB, but will be on the student’s transcript, thus providing conclusive evidence that the student attempted to avoid the requirement to submit all scores.</p>
<p>FINALLY, if colleges are to be believed, sending all scores is not to your disadvantage as they profess to use for admission, depending on college, either that test with your highest composite or the highest section scores from multiple tests (called superscoring), and do not consider any lower scores against you.</p>