I will say that our son sent one score on all of his apps. It was the test he took in Aug before his junior year. After he received this score, he had to still take the SAT in April of junior year for the state we live in. It’s mandaory for graduation and students cannot use a different test date (so dumb). Anyway, he did fine on April test but was 30 points lower than the Aug test and didn’t need to use that April score. That test did include the essay where his Aug test did not. None of his schools needed the essay. He didn’t think about it so much I guess when he checked no on the question about “did he take the essay section”. He’s not using that test. Didn’t want to take that test and didn’t need the score. He already got his high score months before. I saw that he checked no and didn’t think it was an issue either. To him it just meant that he didn’t take the essay on the one and only test he planned to send. He got a 20 on the essay so he want trying to hide anything. It was an honest oversight since his schools don’t want it and we didn’t even send any part of that test where he wrote the essay.
I’m not really worried about it. He wasn’t trying to hide anything. He just sort of read the question wrong. He didn’t take the essay on the one and only test he sent.