College Board is sharing e-mail with colleges

blueiguana
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:59:19 +0000

Interestingly, S3 got an email from collegeboard reminding him that he’d opted out when registering for the SAT and just click ‘here’ to change that because many, many schools were trying to reach him. ;)

I’m also going to double what xiggi stated about making sure your students do NOT put their hs information on the SAT/ACT booklet when they take the test. The scores will end up being sent back to the school and often listed involuntarily on their transcripts. These as called soft scores and accepted by few schools (ie you still have to send in scores fm collegeboard). It totally defeats score choice. If your student takes both the ACT and SAT doing statistically much better on one, they apply and send only those scores, both sets can show up on the transcript. Colleges say they don’t consider transcript scores, but you can’t ‘unsee’ something, and again it undermines your students right to scorechoice.

I tried without luck to have transcript scores removed. I know others have been successful. Don’t link tests and the hs in any way from the start.