Yet

Because that would be a loophole in score choice, when college board states very specifically that colleges CANNOT opt out and that there are no loopholes. Also, to the poster b4 you, i would absolutetly "sign that line" saying i sent all my scores. That's not even an issue for me.

ttparent

I see, you don't know for sure but you state with absolute certainty that there is no way for college to find out. And from that logic, you have no problem lying on your application because they cannot find out? I guess it is ok to cheat and steal as long as no one finds out.

Yet

Yep. Not worried. Nothing can happen to me. You characterize that as "the big question" but i don't see how it is a big question at all... I do NOT believe the ends justifies the means or w/e. I find cheating and stealing morally wrong. I do not see lying about score choice to a college as morally wrong. And i am only stating college board's policy. I am absolutely certain that that is what they are saying, since that is verbatim what i was told when i contacted them.

ttparent

It is your decision to do whatever you think is right, but what you stated is full of hypocrisy. The ends does not justify the means but it is ok to lie to get ahead. Lying on your application is not morally wrong? I am not sure the college and the majority of other people agree with that. And you are stating way more than what college board's policy entails, you listen to what they tell you but you choose to hear and understand what you want to understand. It is true that college board will send just the scores you indicated but CB does not suggest that you should lie or purposely withhold scores when you are asked to send all scores. These are two completely different things.

Greta

Regarding the post by 'Yet':

Colleges and universities place a high value on honesty and personal integrity.

Most have honor codes.

Students have been kicked out of school for violations of honor codes and even have had their degrees rescinded after the fact when an honor code violation is discovered at a later date.

Students haven't come back to these boards to report that lies were a successful application strategy, as far as I know. I think if they were 'lucky' enough not to get caught at the application phase, they are now looking over their shoulders, wondering if they will be found out in the future.

Dana772576

personally, i'd never dare lie to get ahead, especially regarding college...for the colleges i get into, i want to get in for just being me, faults and all..even if I have some bad test scores..

I don't know, I just don't think people should lie about not using score choice, possibly taking the place of an honest person who deserves the spot..but that's just my opinion

broetchen

I am not going to second guess yet's use of score choice. I think there has been quite a bit of double talk by the colleges themselves on admissions practices, especially in the arena of how test scores are used/reported.

I am not as convinced as yet is that there will no way at all for the suppression of scores to always go undetected.

Yet, what will your strategy be re. score choice? Will you only send your best score/s, or will you throw an "extra" in for credibility's sake? Again, no judgment here, just curious on how it all will play out.

xymaxmin

Add Colgate University to the list, as I just checked the school website about the SAT policy and it says it requires all SAT scores.

Colleges Requiring Submission of All SAT Scores (NO Score Choice):

Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale
UC Riverside
Georgetown
Colgate

Greta

I will re-post the link to the College Board pdf document which is probably the most up-to-date listing of score choice practices by college. which expands the list of schools requiring students to submit all scores beyond the list in post #53.
http://professionals.collegeboard.co...tices-list.pdf

It is also a good idea to go directly to each school's website to verify the SAT policy for all schools where you have an interest.

RenaissanceMom

My son and I attended the following info sessions this summer & fall, and he specifically asked about Score Choice with these results: at Johns Hopkins (want to see all scores), Wesleyan (OK to use score choice but still hope that you'll send all scores b/c they only consider your best in ea. section) and Brown (want to see all scores).

CheeryBroody23

Colleges Requiring Submission of All SAT Scores (NO Score Choice):

Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale
UC Riverside
Georgetown
Colgate
University of Maryland - College Park
Syracuse University

I'm not even going to bother with score choice, especially when my transcript is going to give all my SAT scores anyways.

SLUMOM

Greta, that link did not work.

Greta

SLUMOM, I just tested it again after reading your post and it still works for me. It is a pdf file and loads slowly (at least for me, maybe takes 30 seconds before it opens). Can you normally download and read pdf files? I'm not sure how to get to the file other than that link. Anyone else have a suggestion?

SLUMOM

OK, it worked, it did not work for me yesterday & I did wait patiently! LOL
It is great that you posted it here, because you can hunt around on collegeboard for a while before you actually find it!

iheartivy

To add some more that were not mentioned:

Colleges Requiring Submission of All SAT Scores (NO Score Choice):

Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale
All UC Schools
Georgetown
Colgate
University of Maryland - College Park
Syracuse University
Rice
Tufts
Wesleyan
Harvey Mudd
Barnard
Scripps
George Washington