Forgetting to self report a required test score...! Help, please real quick....

drusba
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:16:38 +0000

I should note two possible exceptions to what I said above. I do not know if there are still any left that do this, but in the past there were colleges that actually did not require you to send official score reports for determining admission but instead relied on what you put on app which would then have to be confirmed by an official report after you are admitted. The UCs used to do that but now require and rely on official reports. I am unaware of any higher ranked colleges that do that currently but make sure you check particularly for any regional or lower ranked colleges whether that is the case (note even for those if you failed to put a score on the app you could just send official scores but the policy was designed to allow you to avoid incurring the cost of doing so until after being admitted).

The second exception applies to some colleges that require “all scores” if you took multiple tests and it is applicable only to the ACT. Rather than requiring you to send offical scores of all your ACT tests, they allow you to report your scores on the app and pay to send only one score (Yale is one of those). The reason for that is that the ACT, unlike the SAT, charges a separate fee per test to send to any one college and thus the college allows you to report additonal scores on app to avoid having to pay multiple charges to send multiple official scores. However, even with those you can instead just send offical scores for all ACT tests if you fail to list them on app.