How
are score reports sent to colleges?
When
you register to take an SATI or SAT II test, you are allowed four
free reports to colleges. If you are taking your final SAT test, the
score reports that are sent out will be complete. A complete report
must be sent to all colleges to which you plan to apply.
You
can use the College Board website
to send additional score reports to colleges and scholarship programs
(Visa, MasterCard, or American Express credit card required). The
fee is $7.00 per score report. Scores are sent to colleges monthly,
so it could take 3 to 5 weeks for your scores to be received. For
those who would like to order reports by mail, a form
is available.
If,
in order to meet a deadline, you need scores sent earlier, you can
use Rush Reporting. Note, rush reporting is a telephone service (1-800-SAT-SCORE).
It is not available via the Internet at this time. There is an extra
fee of $24 in addition to the $7.00 per report. Some schools do not
accept rushed scores as "official".
Can't
a college just download my scores when I apply?
No.
You must have an official score report sent to the college.
Do
colleges see all of my SAT scores?
Yes.
All
of your SAT I and SAT II scores become part of your permanent record
at the College Board.
Any
score reports that are sent to colleges will include all of your SAT
I and SAT II scores.
SAT
II Subject Tests are on your permanent record, with one exception.
Prior to the 2002-2003 school year, students were able to elect to
use Score Choice. The Score Choice option must have been chosen before
the test was taken. It allowed students to keep their SAT II scores
out of their record at the College Board. Thus, the scores were not
included on score reports sent to colleges unless the student decidded
to have them released. If
you took an SAT II Subject Test on or before June of 2002, you may
have scores being held through score choice. See your guidance counselor
for more information.
Score
Choice was discontinued after the 2001-2002 school year and only applied
to SAT II Subject tests.
I
hear people talk about releasing and sending scores. What do they
mean? Is there a difference?
Much
of the confusion that exists in relation to SAT scores involves misunderstanding
and/or misusing these two terms.
Sending:
When you apply to college (or certain scholarship programs), you
need to have an official score report sent to the college folks
directly from the College Board. The term sending (not releasing)
is used in reference to having a score report sent to a college
or scholarship from the College Board.
Releasing:
Releasing scores is something that only applies to people who
took SAT II Subject Tests AND used the Score Choice option
at the time of registration (no longer available
as of 9/02). When it existed, Score Choice allowed students
to hold their SAT II Subject Test scores. This means that the
scores did not become part of the permanent record, and, thus, they
were not included in any score reports that are sent to colleges,
unless the student chose to release the scores. By releasing
scores, you are having them placed into your permanent record at the
College Board so that they are available to be sent to colleges.
Releasing scores does NOT involve having score reports sent to a college.
They are two separate actions, though they can be done together on
one form.
If
you took an SAT II Subject Test prior to 9/02 and elected to
use the Score Choice option at the time you registered, your scores
will not be part of your College Board record and will not be sent
to colleges unless you release those scores.
Does
my guidance counslor have copies of my scores?
The
guidance counselors do keep records of the SAT scores that are sent
to us. However, when a student fails to note the Norwell High School
code number (221675) at the time of registration and/or the testing
itself, the scores are not forwarded to us. Therefore, we do not have
complete records for all students, and, occasionally, we don't have
any scores for a student.
