<p>5boys - If you are sending scores to someone for the test today as part of the free report, you can not make choices for today’s scores but you can make them for any tests taken before today. One of the parents on another thread mentioned that if you are sending scores after all testing is complete and you are choosing to send scores by paying for each score, you can pick and choose. However, I was just playing it and tried to remove some scores to see what happens and a warning popped up to say we need to understand scoring choice of the school etc.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. She really is sick. Fever, body hurts all over including where the blankets are touching her skin. We were suppose to have out of town guests tonight. We gave them the news and they cancelled. There will be other weekends this summer.Now I am trying my best to not get sick. Washing my hands and trying to keep her confined to her room.
I wanted her to be done but the truth of the matter is that she has several friends who have not even taken the SAT for the first time yet.
My D is another with a low math score. A 560. She is pretty resigned to not getting it much higher. She is very happy with her writing score and would like to get her reading score higher. She figures schools are going to look at her transcripts and know Math is just not her strength.</p>
<p>That sounds horrible. How unfortunate to give up after completing 6 sections successfully! Does she still have finals to take?</p>
<p>Thanks texaspg… I wonder where you would find out score choice policies of diiferent schools? My S is only applying to one school that even requires SAT II’s so if all else fails he just won’t apply to that school. Just hate to cancel the scores if he thinks his Lit is good… he also always says he doesn’t think he does well, then he does… i.e. 780 CR last SAT sitting.</p>
<p>5boys-- on the College Board website the different colleges show their policies (click on College search, the name of the college and “sat, act, clep”) If he thinks the lit was good I wouldn’t cancel the scores. He can take it again and improve–it’d be a shame to lose a good score.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12697268-post5135.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12697268-post5135.html</a></p>
<p>Courtesy CPU who provided the link a few pages ago.</p>
<p>5boys-</p>
<p>I posted the following recently, I do not recall where, and you may find it useful.</p>
<p>The score choice issue is confusing, at least with respect to subject tests. Generally speaking, if the school does not permit score choice with to SAT I, it likely also does not permit score choice with respect to the subject tests. If the subject tests are optional, then score choice is probably allowed (see Stanford below). It really seems to depend on each each individual college and if the answer cannot be determined from the colleges website (it is often unclear) then direct contact with the school might be required.</p>
<p>For example, Columbia and Yale do not permit score choice with respect to subject tests. According to the Columbia website, Students must submit all SAT Subject Test scores from all test dates. According to the Yale website, Yale does not participate in Score Choice. Therefore, you need to send Yale the results of all SAT and SAT Subject Tests or all ACT tests that you have taken.</p>
<p>Stanford states that it does not allow score choice, but it does for subject tests since they are not required. According to the Stanford website, Applicants must self-report and submit all SAT scores OR all ACT scores. Applicants cannot elect to use the College Board’s Score Choice or elect to “hide” any scores with either testing agency Applicants may also selectively submit whichever SAT Subject Test scores they choose, as those scores are not required for admission. </p>
<p>So, Stanford does, in effect, allow score choice for subject tests.</p>
<p>Here’s college board’s list of each college’s score choice policy.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf</a></p>
<p>College board allows score choice on SAT II’s by subject, so as long as the individual college allows it, you can choose to send two of his subject test scores and omit the third. The only exception is that if he retakes one of the subjects - for instance if he took history again next fall. He could send BOTH history scores or NEITHER, but he couldn’t pick just the highest to send. This is how the score choice rules read, and I called last fall and asked if I was interpreting it correctly and they said yes.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the testers who felt good about their tests! And mom60 - what a bummer for your daughter! That’s just heartbreaking.</p>
<p>Mom60, I’m so sorry to hear about your DD–I hope she’s feeling better now! To all of you who’ve had more downs than ups with your 2012 kids recently, I’m sending lots of warm and fuzzy vibes.</p>
<p>Today was DD’s 3rd and last SAT attempt. The poor thing had an experimental Math section! Her prior Math scores were 520 and 490, and she really really really wants a 550 or higher. More to the point, she wanted a combined CR+M 1200 on one sitting (she just managed 1200 combined over the past two tests). Having FOUR Math sections was simply exhausting for her. We’ll see…</p>
<p>As for DS, he took three Subject Tests–Chemistry, Math II, and Latin. He said Chemistry was easier than the practice tests he’d taken, but Math was harder. Because he’s naturally so good at Math, and because he’d gotten an 800 on the one and only practice test, he felt prepared–but now he’s worried. He thought the Latin test was harder than he’d expected, but he didn’t prep for that at all because he ran out of time. No big deal for that, since he was taking the Latin test for “fun”…but he’s hoping the Chem and Math II results will be good.</p>
<p>JenPam…D took the same subject tests (Chem, Math II & Latin). She thought the math section was hard due to time constraints (she skipped 2 early on with the intent of returning later) and then was suprised when time was up and she still had ten more to go! She felt good about most of the problems she answered… we hope so (if she can squeak out a 650 she will be done with standardized testing). Said Latin was easy except for a hard translation of a poem. </p>
<p>Finals exams next week and then thank god for summer. Cheers to anyone whose kids are done already.</p>
<p>oh, about forgotten calculators --D has NEVER remembered to bring it home from her school locker the day before the SATs. Thankfully her sister, cousin and boyfriend all have the same one (and keep it in their backpacks).</p>
<p>My kid is not done with SATs yet. I am trying to coax her to sign up for Oct test before she leaves for the summer program in a couple of weeks. She always signed up late and got a different testing place every time. I got to learn to drive to most high schools in the area. A minor anxiety attack with it.</p>
<p>Mom60 – I’m so sorry about your D’s illness. What rotten timing!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone whose kid tested yesterday. Iglooo, the story of the calculator batteries made me grin!</p>
<p>Try not to despair about the kids qualms. It’s hard to tell precisely how you score. Sometimes these kids are under such pressure that they feel like they did badly when in reality they made some hard, but correct choices, or are just feeling the time pressure. D thought she had really blown the Lit SAT II in May, but when the scores came back, she was very, very pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>We did send the 4 free scores, and now she’s getting college emails, really for the first time (she always checks the “don’t contact me” box on the exam.) I’m hoping that it inspires her to start thinking about her essays, though she is taking the day off!</p>
<p>Enjoy your Sunday, everyone!</p>
<p>S took Math II, Literature, and US History yesterday. Going in, thought he was well-prepared for all three. Afterward, he seemed pretty confident in Literature and US History but agreed with the other assessments that Math II was harder than what he’d prepared for.</p>
<p>He’d taken the diagnostic in Barron’s and gotten a 730. Most the questions he didn’t attempt were in two distinct areas not covered in any great depth (or at all) in our curriculum. He worked through the Barron’s in those two areas, got an 800 on the test in the blue book and he and I both thought he was in good shape. What’s the world coming to when Barron’s won’t overprepare you for an exam? :)</p>
<p>Maybe the curve will be generous based on our kids’ experience.</p>
<p>Okay, one last question from me on free score reports. I’m going to try to get DS to do that today. Will they send all the tests he has taken to date? That is what he wants as he is done with his tests. Will there be some kind of confirmation that the schools received them?</p>
<p>I have never received any confirmation from schools. I guess once they have an app, they try to match it and update your status. </p>
<p>My kid has a single SAT, two SAT subjects from last month and two for this month. I was playing with it yesterday to see what it lets me do and found the following:</p>
<p>SAT score - I tried to remove the flag on it (it had them on a single line stating it was the best score since it was a single attempt) it gave me a big essay warning about score choice and paying attention to what the schools expect/follow rules etc. But it let me take out the flag if I wanted.</p>
<p>I was able to remove one of the two subject flags without an issue (probably could have removed both).</p>
<p>The only flag I could nt remove is for the test from yesterday since that is what is allowing you to send the free report. So essentially collegeboard is daring you to send them without knowing the scores.</p>
<p>mimk6 – The CB gives a confirmation that they sent the scores, and the schools emailed D, not to tell her that they got her scores, but the usual college spam. Since there’s a real uptick in emails, I’m thinking it’s because she sent her scores.</p>
<p>And yes, they send ALL scores to date.</p>
<p>Ijustdrive - the junkmail originates from collegeboard selling your information to schools if you have checked the flag saying schools can contact you. Some of them explicitly state they got your info from collegeboard. I sometimes find it annoying that we have visited a school, registered on their website with all the personal info showing interest, and an year later they send a letter saying we got your info from collegeboard, can you come visit us! You go, what the heck happened to all the paperwork we did so far, money we spent visiting you and now you are telling us you just heard of us?</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. We’ll go ahead and send. He’s applying to a couple of schools that don’t accept score choice, so there is no reason to wait and see how he did yesterday. He has two strong subject test scores already, his other scores are good and he knows which schools he wants to apply to, so it makes sense to save some money and send them.</p>
<p>re sending free scores…D had her subject test scores sent to BU last month, does that mean they automatically received her SAT I scores too?</p>