<p>So the new SAT Score-Reporting Policy that begins with the class of 2010 states that students will be able to choose which SAT I and SAT II scores are sent to colleges. However, it also states that some colleges can still request to see all your scores. Does anyone know whether or not Yale requests that students send all of their scores regardless of the new policy?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I'd be pretty shocked if Yale didn't want all scores.</p>
<p>Why would you be shocked? They don't report an average of everyone's scores as their students profile, just the best ones. Anyway, how would they know if your reported all or only some of the scores?</p>
<p>milessmiles: Well, I emailed Harvard, and they told me that they have no preference and that it is the student's choice, so who knows what Yale's policy might be.</p>
<p>broetchen: They may work with CB and request that all scores be sent, since CB is the actual one sending the scores.</p>
<p>^ can't get your scores without your permission.
On the other hand, they will see them if they appear on your high school transcript. watch out for that.</p>
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Colleges will continue to set their own test requirement policies. These policies may vary from college to college. The College Board will work with colleges to provide them with best practice information and guidance on how best to formulate, clarify, and/or communicate test requirements policies, given the new SAT score report policy. Students will be encouraged to follow the different score-reporting requirements of each college to which they apply.
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<p>CB sends them the scores, which means that CB would have to follow their policy.</p>
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CB sends them the scores, which means that CB would have to follow their policy.
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<p>My 800-level reading comprehension takes what College Board says to mean that College Board will send scores as YOU ask for them to be sent, and it's up to you to send what a college requests to have. </p>
<p>Anyway, I think folks are overthinking this way too much. Colleges are habituated to giving students the benefit of their best scores. I have a whole FAQ about this, which I will repost here: </p>
<p>ONE-TIME TEST-TAKING </p>
<p>Colleges have given up trying to distinguish one-time test-takers from two-time or three-time or even four-time test-takers, because that wasn't useful information to the colleges. There are a number of reasons for that. </p>
<p>1) The colleges have utterly no way of knowing who spends all his free time practicing taking standardized tests and who takes them "cold." </p>
<p>2) The colleges are well aware that students who have actually taken the tests sometimes cancel scores, so they have little incentive to give students bonus consideration if the students submit only one test score. </p>
<p>3) The colleges are aware that students who take the admission tests at middle-school age, who are numerous, do not have their earlier test scores submitted by default. </p>
<p>SAT</a> Younger than 13 </p>
<p>Hoagies</a>' Gifted: Talent Search Programs </p>
<p>Duke</a> TIP - Interpreting SAT and ACT Scores for 7th Grade Students </p>
<p>4) Colleges are aware that the majority of students who take the SAT at all take it more than once. </p>
<p>Page</a> Not Found </p>
<p>5) Colleges are in the business of helping students learn, and they don't mind students taking efforts to improve their scores. They know that students prepare for tests. </p>
<p>From the New York Times: "Although coaching would no doubt continue if subject tests replaced the SAT, at least students would be focused on content as much as test-taking strategies, Mr. Murray said. There would also be pressure to improve local high school curriculums so that students were prepared, he wrote.</p>
<p>"These arguments make sense to Mr. Fitzsimmons [dean of admission at Harvard], who said, 'People are going to prepare anyway, so they might as well study chemistry or biology.' He added that 'the idea of putting more emphasis on the subject tests is of great interest' to his group." </p>
<p>6) And now the College Board is back in the business of letting students choose which test scores to send into colleges, </p>
<p>Score</a> Choice </p>
<p>so now there is less reason than ever to suppose that colleges care how many times you take the test, because the colleges have no way to know how many times you took the test officially. </p>
<p>Colleges treat applicants uniformly now by considering their highest scores, period. </p>
<p>From the Harvard admission office: "If you submit more than one set of scores for any of the required tests, the Admissions Committee considers only your best scores—even if your strongest SAT Subject Tests or portions of the SAT Reasoning Test were taken on different dates." </p>
<p>P.S. Based on my most recent contact with a Yale admission officer, a public meeting in my town just last month, I don't expect Yale to be obsessing about how many times Yale applicants have taken the SAT. Yale has more important things in the admission file to look at while selecting students.</p>
<p>I called Yale, and they told me the Admissions Office has yet to make an official decision concerning the new policy but that they will soon, most likely by the beginning of next year.</p>