@3scoutsmom Thank you!
Texas A and M hosts 3 separate dates for overnight visits that covers info sessions with the Honors Program, admissions, scholarships, and several colleges. They do the typical ice breaker, group activities, campus tours, and school spirit activities with the kids. If I am to understand correctly, the invite goes to kids who have expressed interest in A&M and also have PSAT scores that make them NMF candidates.
We sent SAT scores to his favorite school. Have not sent others yet because the list is still fluid.
Slightly different. We didn’t send scores there (or anywhere) , they just have access to them related to the PSAT/NMSQT program.
Thanks
Huge empathy to those waiting on ACT results! Ds were never the first out, or even the second for that matter! So. Very. Frustrating. To. Wait!!!
On the score topic we’ve sent them nowhere and I’m not sure what to do about self reporting either. I have a feeling we won’t self report and will just send them and let them stand or not on their own. She has 2 sittings same composite (ACT), but a one point bump on her superscore. Most of her schools do superscore so we’ll be hoping for the best there.
Some of the schools she’s looking at will accept test scores that are on the HS transcript, but we haven’t seen her transcript since she started testing so no clue yet if that is something we could use to save $$ at those schools.
Congrats @bearcatfan on the scholarship!!
Awhile back, I heard an admissions officer at Tulane say to wait to send test scores until after an application has been submitted. Otherwise, the test score is just floating around, as the prospective student does not yet have a file in their system, and it could get lost.
Conversely…
I sent a free score report to a safety school (ASU) last fall. D got a call from them close to the application deadline, asking if the rest of her application would be submitted soon. So, they obviously started a file for her, waiting for the application, skipping over the fact that she was a junior.
:-??
Just to be on the safe side, I think I am going to wait to send score reports until after D has submitted applications.
Hmmm I think there’s a happy medium somewhere. Depends on how close your kid cuts it to the app deadline right? I recall reading in prior years people paying rush fees and freaking out about getting the scores delivered in a timely manner. Some schools won’t look at the app until it’s complete.
I think my goal is to get her list finalized and scores sent by the end of summer. Then that’s one thing off my plate and schools should absolutely be expecting scores from incoming apps by then. Even if the app isn’t there yet 
Well we are waiting to send scores since the June SAT scores don’t come out until July. And then we have to wait for transcript.
If the threads I read here on CC about top schools are anything close to reality then I’m going to recommend to D18 that she apply to just the StateU and call it a day. There’s no way she can compete with beekeeping businessmen, cheerleading mathematicians, kids with “only” two varsity sports, state and (inter)national award winners, etc.
There are a lot of schools between StateU and whatever definition of “top.” Nothing at all wrong with StateU, but there are literally hundreds of options left after you cut out the top 25 or so, where you are competing with the beekeeping businessmen.
Once the list is reasonably in shape by the end of the summer (I hope!) I’m thinking we’ll send the scores for the couple of schools that are EA, due Novemberish, and then send the rest in November for the January due dates, in case the list changes in the mean time.
@suzy100 Yes all schools require the official report for SAT/ACT to be sent, but for the Common App there is also a section that allows you to self report your scores (in addition to sending the official score report). You can leave it blank or you can report. That is what we are on the fence about. Leave it blank as we did with DD’16 or go ahead and self report.
@bearcatfan the only benefit that I can see is that the school might possibly get an idea, ahead of receiving the official report, what the scores are and track the app from that.
@sushiritto we used the 4 free SAT reports (for both sittings thus far) to schools that DD was marginally interested in attending. That way if the score was crummy (which it was for the first test IMO, still waiting for the June scores) it didn’t matter to much.
I would never want to send a score to a real serious contender without seeing it first, because DD’s scores have not been stellar. We had one glitch with sending scores prior to the app submission to Drexel with DD’16 and it was a mess to match things up. We will wait to send official score reports until after DD’18 hits the submit app button! Which still leaves me wondering whether to self report.
We’ll just continue to wait on sending score reports. I’m not really sure if my D has a favorite school, although if we weren’t so close to campus, Stanford might be that #1. But that’s speculation on my part.
@droppedit I hear you. I am very much in a “why bother” frame of mind right now. I keep trying to remind myself that what we see on CC is not necessarily typical of all applicants, but it’s a struggle.
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Composite went up two points. She has hit the benchmarks for every school she’s applying to - more so if they superscore which allows her very good science score from April to be included.
^:)^
HOORAY @bearcatfan ! Worth the wait.
@droppedit please realize that CC is NOT the real world. The vast majority of kids and parents here do not represent the kids your child is coming into contact with.
She is trying to decide if it is worth taking a fourth time, for the September testing date.
What’s the record for number of ACT tests taken? :))
Just listened to a podcast where Admissions Officers said there is no benefit to sending in scores (or anything else) early. They don’t look at anything until they start reading period (in November for ED or January for RD).