<p>Believe it or not, a job I applied to asked me for my SAT scores. Not remembering, and not being able to apply through their website without some scores, I made them up. (Don’t worry; I wound up getting rejected from the job anyway. And I would have come clean.) </p>
<p>In addition, I’m toying with the idea of getting certified by my state to teach. One of the requirements is to pass a standardized test or to show that my SATs and GREs were high enough to get the new test waived.</p>
<p>So I wrote CollegeBoard, asking them if they still have my scores, even for a price. I took the SATs in 1965 and the GREs in 1970.</p>
<p>CollegeBoard immediately sent me a standard “thank you for your question and we’ll get back to you.” That was 10 days ago. </p>
<p>Anyone know whether and how I can get my scores??</p>
<p>“I took the SATs in 1965 and the GREs in 1970.”
I would be utterly blown away if the Collegeboard went to the trouble to try to find 40 YEAR OLD SAT scores!! Sorry, but I think you will just have to take the test again.
It is hard enough to get any kind of customer service for recent SAT scores from the Collegeboard these days, but to hope they will make any effort to dig up very old scores that were probably never input into a database. let alone saved for more than 4 decades is not realistic.</p>
<p>When I read this thread, I thought I’d be seeing a kid posting about how their parent is in a competition with them to see if they can beat their kid on the SAT. :P</p>
<p>Why don’t you just do the easy option: Pass a standardized test. Presumably with your education and life experience, it shouldn’t be too hard. You might, though, want to review basic math, something many people forget.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is going back to school and needed very old SATs - College Board can dig up scores that are ancient, but it took a written request, and several weeks. Hmmm…I wonder if you could just sign up to take the SATs again?</p>
<p>VeryHappy - Were you applying to be the next Chairman of the Connecticut State Ethics Commission? (I hear they’re having a very hard time filling that position!)</p>
<p>Your college and the school district you graduated high school from are both required to have your transcript on file. One or both should have your SAT scores on them.</p>
<p>The test you are trying to get out of is ridiculously easy, but expensive. I’d want to find my scores too.</p>
<p>I have never heard of an adult being asked to submit ancient SAT scores. Has anyone else? I mean, half of all we discuss here is SAT scores and I have never heard that before. That is nuts! Aren’t there about 25,000 vocabulary words that didn’t even exist in 1970 ? I might actually have my score report in a box somewhere but I have lost so many brain cells since then it should be irrelevant.</p>
<p>This thread is definitely NOT what I thought it would be by how I interpreted the title. I was ready to reply, “Just TELL your parents your SAT scores, already!”</p>
<p>Maybe you kept your SAT score report because you were so proud of it? Look in that box of knicknacks saved from high school.</p>
<p>One thing to note: the SAT was re-centered sometime after you took it in the 60s.</p>
<p>I’d keep looking through those job boards. They want scores from 44 years ago…what relevance does that have to do with anything??? Now, if they want you to provide proof that you gradauted from a university…I get that, but I would tell them you are not going to jump through hoops trying to find old test scores.</p>
<p>You mentioned testing for certification–I don’t know about CT, but in MA there are two tests that one can take to get temporary certification for teaching if someone has a college degree. One is a literacy test and one is a subject test. I considered teaching in high school a few years ago and took both tests. They were easy. If that’s the type of test that CT is requiring, I’d take it rather than trying to retake the SAT or the GRE.</p>
<p>Sorry about the poor title of this thread. How about “I’m a Really Old Parent Needing Her Own SAT Scores from 44 Years Ago”??</p>
<p>Yeah, I was blown away when the job I applied for asked for my scores. I mean, required that I enter scores before their web site would accept my application. I did want to scream, “It was 44 years ago!” but I kinda thought that the age factor might guarantee a rejection . . . .</p>
<p>I know the test for teacher certification is easy; I just thought I could save the hassle by submitting my old SATs. But at this rate, the scores will be 45 years old before CollegeBoard gets back to me!!</p>
<p>Bodacious: That’s exactly the info I needed. Thank you.</p>
<p>Ok … I know I’m a numbers geek … but I know/remember my PSAT and SAT scores from 30+ years ago. And I have been asked for them in job applications before (large national consulting companies when I was 22-35 years old).</p>
<p>LOL. The thought of having to review math, vocab words, grammar, etc gives me an anxiety attack just thinking about it! I too remember my SAT scores, but not my GRE scores. I happened to have to get my grad school transcript recently (from many moons ago), and dont recall seeing the GRE scores on there. </p>
<p>Wonder if you’d be allowed to put the recentered score on the application rather than the old score?</p>