<p>wow, thank you all!
Ct1417, that was great info! Is there any way to share a link to that document? I don’t know of any other name for Agnes Scott, curious, that is wouldn’t be listed.<br>
Celeste, thank you. I had found the info about UMiami asking for all scores, but didn’t see where you could ask for more info.
Two girls, at Furman, I Had only found the test optional info, but nothing about super scoring. One would think, after all this time obsessing over colleges, that I would be more adept at navigating their websites by now. It seems each time I am searching the sites I am trying to locate different, specific information.</p>
<p>Maxwelle, with a swing of 300 points, since they are practice tests, being taken at home, I’d suspect that focus might make a big difference. Trying to maintain the same intense focus each time you take a test at home is probably difficult. Even if you are trying to do your best each time, in the back of your mind you know it’s not the real thing so you might let your mind wander a bit.</p>
<p>Shoboe I found it again under " admissions tips." It says something like if you decide to send them multiple tests they will take the best grouping of scores. The way it was worded made it sound like they do this for both the SAT and ACT. I got the impression that they super score although it did not directly use the word " super score."</p>
<p>shoboemom, Another possibility is to just email the colleges’ admissions people and ask for clarification. They sometimes take a couple of days to respond, but it’s a good way to get definitive answers. I never feel bad to do that and it’s sometimes less work than finding the info on site. If they don’t have their info laid out clearly on website, they should expect to be bothered. As long as you are on the site anyway poking around, you can usually find a ‘contact us’ tab. Though occasionally, they don’t seem to have email option. I can’t remember who last year, but there were a couple schools it seemed I had to call to get answers. And when I emailed UW-Madison with questions about scholarship #s and eligibility, the guy emailed me back and said I had to call him to discuss. I guess he didn’t want to go on written record with his responses.</p>
<p>shoboe–I saved the file as a PDF instead of as a link, but here is the title of the file. Perhaps CB has even updated it since I saved it last spring.</p>
<p>SAT Score-Use Practices by Participating Institution</p>
<p>The U Miami explanation makes it sound as though they are happy to receive as many scores as you want to send and that they will then superstore, but I didn’t read that to mean one must submit all scores. </p>
<p>When you go in to order the score reports to be sent, schools that require all scores are identified as such by CB. </p>
<p>And I agree with Celeste about emailing the local ad coms. The only problem at this moment is that many are sequestered away reading applications and will not respond. This varies across schools, as we learned when my son was trying to send 1st Q grades to his EA & ED schools. I would think that Miami would respond b/c they have been a marketing machine. They are starting to rival Chicago for the sheer volume of mail arriving here.</p>
<p>I hadn’t really considered emailing colleges, thinking I shouldn’t ‘bother’ them until D is serious about starting applications. I should get over that. ;-)</p>
<p>CT1417, What do you mean by ‘local’ ad coms?</p>
<p>Each school usually has admissions counselors that are assigned to specific geographic areas of the country and abroad. You can email the adcom that is assigned to your area- this info is usually on the web site. </p>
<p>My daughter keeps getting a bunch of mailings and emails from random and not so random schools. She can get 5 or more each day. The schools vary ie yesterday I looked up two of them and one was not selective - ACT 22 and CR score of 490 yet the other school I looked up was a " more popular selective" school with ACTs of 30+ and SATs in the 700s for all sections. I can’t imagine that they are using her PSAT scores because the range of mailings is extremely broad in terms of selectivity. The only thing I am finding is that on the emails there is always something on the bottom with " National organization of college …" Don’t recall the full name but it seems as though schools who are part of this organization are emailing her. She has gotten emails from some tech schools, Binghamton and Fordham ( more selective schools) to a school called Lynn University which does not seem to be selective at all. The mailings all seem to want her to log on and take come kind of " college choice quiz." It is strange and a little unsettling to me. She must have checked this organization off on some test she took. </p>
<p>Has anybody experienced this? She also keeps getting mail from a group called the National Academy of Future Physicians addressed to her and the letter contains the name of her high school. That’s another thing that freaks me out as I have no clue if this is legit and where they are getting her info from. She must be on a ton of mailing lists. </p>
<p>I do not know when. PSAT scores are released but I have the envelope that was mailed home for my older one and it is post marked Jan 22.</p>
<p>All of the letters D is getting sound the same - asking her to take a quiz on school’s web site. She hasn’t done it so I don’t know what that’s about. The only school that sounded “different” was email she received from Hopkins. Among other things, the letter said they got her info from the ACT (D took Sept ACT).</p>
<p>My daughter only took the PLAN test, two subject tests, and more recently the PSAT. She was getting emails and mailings almost on a daily basis from Hopkins and Chicago but lately that seems to have stopped in favor of these random mailings asking her to take quizzes ( she won’t). I suppose the mailings will become " more real" once she gets her first round of SAT and ACT under her belt. Right now the mailings are really all over the place in terms of selectivity which leads me to believe that they don’t mean anything. I find it to be very odd as I do not recall this much mail so early on with my older one.</p>
<p>CT, UMiami says on their admissions instructions webpage that you have to send all scores. They don’t repeat it on the answer in the Q&A, which I think they could have done for clarity’s sake. These colleges really ought to be hiring parents who have gone through the app process for advice on how to fix up their sites and processes.</p>
<p>I occasionally emailed local adcoms, but often just emailed the admissions office at their general email address. They farm them out to whoever is free in the office or who specializes in the topic of question. Then if I had further questions I would direct them to whomever responded to my initial contact.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’m allowed this link. If it doesn’t come through, it’s a list of GA colleges with superscoring practices. For Agnes Scott it says SAT: yes, ACT:no. But it’s 3 years old, so they might be superscoring ACT too by now, who knows.</p>
<p>Happy Belated Thanksgivukkah & Thanksgiving too all & safe return home for all our cyper-friends who traveled away from home!</p>
<p>I would not trust College Board with information regarding schools requiring all scores to be submitted, as there was some hoop lala about this and College Board stating schools required all scores when in actuality the school did not.</p>
<p>Contact an adcom as Celeste mentioned if the information regarding test score submission is not easily discernible from the school’s website.</p>
<p>So tonight my daughter came to dinner with us ( shocking- she usually stays home and we bring her back something) and I asked her a few college questions. For the very first time she said that she wants to go someplace with a few familiar faces- with kids from our high school. She likes the idea of having a few kids around that she knows- does not have to be her best friend, but at least a familiar face so that she does not feel lonely. So… With this new found information in mind we are now sticking to schools on the east coast and in the south east. These are the regions where our HS students generally go. We will be taking the Midwest schools ie Ohio etc off the list unless she changes her mind again. We have a list of about 15 schools that will most likely be narrowed down to a final list of 13. It’s still a lot but manageable. </p>
<p>twogirls—to assist your search….go to Naviance, under college research there is a tab ‘acceptance history’. This will show you where students from your D’s HS have been accepted and enrolled. You then need to click the hyperlink for the individual school to see how many from each of the past two years since the aggregate figure will include school’s lifetime history.</p>
<p>The College Map tab, and then ‘Colleges Where Our Students Are Attending’ will show you the schools that are near other schools you will be visiting. </p>
<p>I had forgotten about the Quiz emails. They die out at some point, but I can’t recall when. (Son is HS Sr. Thanksgiving has brought many silly email messages from schools he is not considering.)</p>
<p>So I went on College Board and typed in " PSAT scores." Then it took me to " quick start" and I clicked on it- in the past it said sorry we can’t give you your scores ( or something like that). Last night the message was different- it said Welcome ( daughters name). It said that a free personalized planning kit will be available soon and to please check back in a few days to take advantage of all the benefits it has to offer. It says that you will be able to see your scores ( among other things). Does this mean we can see PSAT scores before the school sends them home?</p>
<p>I just checked on Collegeboard, and the only PSAT scores I see are the ones from last year (her sophomore year). Looking at those scores did make me notice how closely the PSAT scores matched her SAT score from this year. I saw a place on CB where you can enter your email to get notified when scores come out. I didn’t do it, thinking I will check pretty regularly anyway. lol</p>
<p>I wish! Unfortunately I think you need the code that is printed on the paper report. My son’s account still shows his info from when he took the PSAT as a sophomore. It says to type in the access code from the 2013 report for 2013 info. ;(</p>
<p>Twogirls did you see that you can put in an access code from the psat. Instead of that you can click to give them more info. It asks for the mailing info for the location you took the test. I think after you put the info you can connect and maybe get the score. But I typed the city wrong 2 times and now it says they can’t securely indentify me so I need that access code. If you try maybe you can see the scores.</p>