List of Colleges ‘Opting Out’ of SAT Score Choice

Greta · 01-26-2009, 06:59 PM

I did not find it elsewhere on CC and thought it might be helpful to keep a consolidated list of schools who are opting out of College Boards’ new Score Choice option. Schools on the list are the colleges and universities that have said they will require ALL SAT scores be submitted for admission consideration. I have pulled together this initial list from CC discussions and have not personally verified the information. It may or may not be accurate. Please copy and paste to edit or add to the list for the benefit of future applicants.

If there is already a list started somewhere on CC, could someone provide a link?

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

Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale

Greta · 01-28-2009, 03:37 PM

So, here are the reliable sources, so far:

Stanford Rejects SAT Score Choice - The Paper Trail (usnews.com)

Quote:

Stanford has rejected the College Board's new Score Choice program, which would allow students to pick which SAT scores to send to colleges, the Stanford Daily reports. Stanford said it will not participate in the program and will continue to consider all of an applicant's SAT scores.
"We want to discourage students from taking the SAT more than once or twice and believe that programs like Score Choice encourage applicants with resources to take the SAT excessively to improve their scores," the admissions director said.
Harvard and the University of Chicago have accepted the policy, while USC, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Pomona continue to require all scores.

Greta · 01-28-2009, 03:39 PM

from Cornell:

Cornell Rejects SAT Score Choice Option | The Cornell Daily Sun

Quote:

Cornell will not be participating in a new College Board initiative, which would allow high school students to select which SAT scores get sent along with their application. In doing so, the University maintains its current policy in which all applicants must submit all their SAT scores along with their application.

Greta · 01-28-2009, 03:40 PM

from Yale:

Yale Daily News - No choice on scores

Quote:

Yale became the latest school Thursday to dismiss the College Board’s plan to allow students to submit only their top SAT scores from individual exams to colleges.
In its rejection of the College Board’s new Score Choice option, Yale will require applicants to send all their scores for the SAT Reasoning Test and SAT Subject Tests, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said in a statement Thursday morning. Yale will also require applicants taking the ACT to submit all their score results, Brenzel said.

Greta · 01-28-2009, 03:50 PM

At this time, I have not been able to identify other schools opting out of score choice for the SAT. Anyone know of others? If not, the list remains:

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

Stanford
Cornell
Pomona
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Yale

MGS · 01-31-2009, 05:16 PM

How can any school "reject" Score Choice? Isn't it up to the applicant to send the scores?

Millhouse · 01-31-2009, 08:55 PM

I don't think there is a way for them to actually know. I remember reading a quote from Furda (penn's dean of admissions) saying they have to trust the applicants and they will also reassess the issue.

j6h2y5 · 01-31-2009, 08:56 PM

Yeah, how are they allowed to do this? I was totally unaware of this fact when I took the December SAT, which I took just to get a feel for the test. Now I'm concerned about my application.

Greta · 02-01-2009, 12:26 PM

In mid January, the Yale Daily News included this statement about Princeton:

Yale Daily News - No choice on scores

Quote:

Princeton Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye said Princeton plans to reach a decision regarding Score Choice this month.

If Princeton has announced their decision regarding Score Choice, I haven’t found it yet.

upw22 · 02-01-2009, 01:17 PM

Jhy...score choice isn't allowed until the march 09' test

It however doesn't matter (really), all the colleges listed will superscore for you...andim assuming you didn't get a 1500 or something and then are going to get 2300, it's fine so don't worry

fignewton · 02-01-2009, 01:34 PM

For now, this an honor system thing: There isn't any way for a school such as Cornell to know that you
only submitted your two best SATs out of the seven that you took. Unless you've already sent scores, the score choice option is completely retroactive for any tests you've already taken, so it doesn't particularly matter that the option isn't available until March.

khoitrinh · 02-01-2009, 01:52 PM

Are you sure there is no way for colleges to find out? I would think that CB could tag the score reports somehow so that the colleges know if score choice was used or not.

PBailey · 02-01-2009, 03:04 PM

I'm fairly sure that if requested, College Board will release all scores...I've done some extensive research on this one...

nooob · 02-01-2009, 03:56 PM

Don't these colleges also super-score? What does this "opting out of score choice" say about their superscore policies?

Granny · 02-01-2009, 04:06 PM

As late as admission of this year's freshman class, Auburn did not use superscores.