OP, I think some of the negative feedback you’re getting stems from the fact that your original post is all written in the first person (“my full testing history,” “my application”), so that it doesn’t sound like a hypothetical situation you are simply curious about. You may have intended something different, but your word choice gives the impression that you were genuinely planning to break the rules. I suggest you take a lesson from the experience and quietly move on.
@WasatchWriter Yeah that is definitely the reason. I tend to do that all the time, even in my school essays first person will sneak its way in. Reading it back I realize it sounded like it was coming from me, which it genuinely was not. I’m going to submit my full testing history because I’m not going to risk not getting into college over something so petty, but I’m shocked at the way adults and members will treat a student with a question.
As to the question of sending all scores in one order, as you noted, College Board will always to do that for the SATs absent your exercising score choice. However, ACT never does that. It requires a separate order and payment of a fee for each test sent to any college. Some colleges require you to do that. Stanford, which requires you to provide all SAT and all ACT scores, allows you to list all your ACT scores on the application and, if you do that, you need send only one official score through ACT.org (the one with the highest composite) when you apply. If admitted, you are then required to submit all the other official scores.
@drusba this helps a lot thank you
@drusba @tuty143 on Stanfords website it says you can only do that if you are applying with a fee waiver
^You are correct. That fee waiver limitation is something new this year because in prior years Stanford allowed anyone to send a single ACT while reporting others in the app.
So you will do it because you don’t want to risk not getting into college over something so petty – not because you want to follow the admission rules. You have decided that the consequences are too high for getting caught, not that it is wrong to cheat. Sorry… you still don’t get it.
@intparent oh thank you for enlightening me. I would have never seen the light of my sinful ways had you not swooped in.
You clearly don’t want to follow the rules, you want to find loopholes to cheat your way in. Stop trying to make it sound like you were asking for someone else and are now repentant anyway. You don’t fool anyone.
@intparent why do you care about other peoples applications so much?
I care because most of the students out here don’t cheat to get into college. You are directly stepping on the chances of other students who come here for advice, and those who don’t come out here as well. No one likes a cheater. It is disgusting that no one taught some posters that by the time they are high school juniors. Wonder how your parents, GCs, and favorite teachers would feel if they knew you were cheating? Just making sure you know how it is perceived in the wider world.
@tuty143: As far as I know, sending even an atrocious score from one type of exam, where you have done well on another, will not negatively affect your admissions decisions. The colleges are looking for some basic criteria that will allow them to keep you on the radar, or not.
Where students who have done horribly on portions of the SAT(for example), but then done really well the next time, the option to superscore allows for a composite that reflects one number that is strong overall. And that is what they are looking for in their review of the standardized test portions of their admissions deliberation.
Students who do better on the ACT, do not lose by sending in a brain-fart sitting of the SAT, and vice-versa.
Don’t worry about other students and what they might do, you can only control what you do.
If a student has financial problems sending all scores from all tests (ACT) they could contact the college and ask if high school can report scores on transcript. Collegeboard (SAT) offers 4 free score reports for students who used a fee waiver.
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