<p>I was under the impression that most colleges do not superscore the ACT, but a college applicant could submit scores from the date he/she selects. </p>
<p>Someone on the College Admission Forum discovered that scores that were not sent by this applicant had been received by at least one university.
In response to that, another person posted this article/blog (college confidential is mentioned, btw):</p>
<p>Looks to me like this is just an opinion coming from a parent of a Florida high school student. Is this something going on in Florida, and/or elsewhere?</p>
<p>That’s not an opinion. That is a carefully drafted waiver of a right to privacy in the student records they could otherwise not access. Read how broad the language is. It’s for “transcript, student record,and test scores”. That would include disciplinary records, state mandated tests, individual class records…well, the mind boggles. And note it is NOT just for records from a particular high school or limited to academic records. ;)</p>
<p>Yes, Curm, you are right. I am surprised that I have not seen discussion about this from FLA folks before. Doubleplay, hope you can post about this. I have not seen the waiver on an application since my child has not applied to a FLA school, so I would just want to validate that this is really the waiver on the FSU application.</p>
<p>Not only is the waiver there so is this “Official records of all test scores must be provided.” and then has blanks for SAT’s, ACT’s, and others.</p>
<p>Are scores released without signing a waiver?</p>
<p>From the ACT website:</p>
<p>Score choice and the ACT
One of the choices you have when taking the ACT is whether you want your scores reported to colleges that interest you. Four college choices are included as part of your registration for the test.</p>
<p>However, if you want to wait to see your scores before sending them to a college or university, you may do that for an additional fee of $8.50 for each test date report sent to each college.</p>
<p>If you take the test more than once, you can select the test date with your best scores and have them sent to colleges of your choice. The ACT is the only college entrance exam that allows you to do this.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen any evidence that scores are being released without a waiver, but the waiver on those Florida apps is very sneaky. Since most kids apply online there’s no signature involved, only a checkbox. As an example, for UF it is similar language to the FSU one, they don’t even have a printable app you can read through in advance and the waiver is the last little box you click on before finishing the application. I had to stand over my kid’s shoulder to verify that this was true or I wouldn’t have believed it.
I’m sure most kids have no idea what it even means and are just anxious to finish up before the deadline. This is not just a theoretical permission either, Florida schools are actively harvesting this information. There are several recent posts from this year’s crop of UF applicants who were surprised to see ACT scores they thought they were choosing not to send show up loud and clear.</p>
<p>We were one of the surprised ones too. My daughter nearly had a heart attack when she saw that UF and FSU both accessed her ACT score that she thought no one would ever see or know that she even took. But lo (very low IMHO) there it was on her Application status page, listed right under the SAT scores. She was not given a choice BTW. Your application is NOT submitted unless you check the waiver box!
It is what it is.</p>