<p>When the SAT or PSAT asks you for your religious affiliation, do parents see what you put? On this year’s PSAT, I put unaffiliated instead of Roman Catholic, and I am taking the SAT on January 25th. I didn’t want to tell my parents I left Catholicism until I entered college, but I am wondering if they will ever see the personal information part of the SAT.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>Only if your parents know your ID/pW and log onto your account and access your personal info when you register for a new test. I think the bigger issue at hand here is not whether your parents will find out about your loss of faith, but why you would have to keep such a secret from them in the first place. If they’re true Christians, they’ll understand, and if they don’t, you need to start asserting your religious freedom. This is modern-day America, not the medieval witchhunt era.</p>
<p>And why is CollegeBoard asking questions like this anyway? It’s none of their business.</p>
<p>They ask these questions for marketing reasons. They sell the addresses of test takers to colleges so they can send them mail. If you put Roman Catholic, you’ll get a lot more e-mails and brochures from Catholic Colleges. If you put that you’re interested in mining, you’ll get brochures from the South Dakota School of Mines. That’s all.</p>
<p>Your parents won’t see it unless they are signing you up for future SATs and have to go through the questions again.</p>
<p>You’ll still get RC and other religiously related college info up the wazoo. My son puts either “None” or “Other” depending on how the mood strikes him, and he gets stuff from St. everybody and anybody College all the time.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think it is any of your parents’ business what religion you are once you are 18. My parents and in-laws are various Christian variations and we still go to holiday parties and dinners at their houses. </p>
<p>And my son isn’t interested in mining, and he gets stuff from mining colleges all the time.</p>
<p>I of course created my son’s College Board account and access it frequently, but I don’t believe there is ANYTHING on it about what he filled out for his PSAT or SAT, certainly not religion. It’s a different matter than what is on the website; a student could switch what religion they list each time and the website would not change.</p>
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Interesting. I almost posted yesterday to ask Cosmological why he or she thinks there will be some kind of life-altering transformation that will make the news go down any better after he or she leaves for college.</p>
<p>I left the Catholic Church and converted to Judaism as an adult. I was working and married and paying my own bills. It still resulted in something of an emotional maelstrom that lasted for a number of years.</p>
<p>I just think that it will be a lot less awkward if I tell them while I am living away at college. I have no idea how my parents will react when I describe to them why I am an Agnostic Atheist. However, I am a bit worried because one time my Mom lost something, found it, and then attributed it to something supernatural. She asked me if I believed in it and I said “yes” just to pass the question, and she said “I’d hope you’d believe in something like that, because sometimes you just have to put science aside.” Now, my Mom is a pretty open minded person, but I am not so sure what will happened. Plus, I have been asked once by my grandparents if I believed in God, and it was at the dinner table, so I said “yes.”</p>
<p>When I am away at college, I will have more freedom with my life, and I feel as if it will be less awkward if I explain to them why I have left Catholicism then.</p>
<p>Plus, I almost got caught. I was registering for the January 25th SAT online and one thing it showed was my religious position in none or no preference. My Dad went on my computer for a bit, but if he did see it, which he might not have seen, maybe he thought that was just the default position. I just changed it to Roman Catholic at that point when I got my computer back after a minute, not exactly sure, though.</p>
<p>I don’t think your parents can see what you put on the form. I access my D’s collegeboard account all the time and don’t think it’s apparent what religion she selected on the PSAT. I do think you are right to at least wait until you are away at college to reveal your beliefs. Less drama. And shows maturity on your part to realize that. Not sure what candicewaas is referring to either. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Are you going to mass every week? Receiving holy communion? It is hard to not be Roman Catholic without people noticing. Are you going to other Services on Sundays. I suspect that your “unaffiliated” more a revolt from parental control. Religion is about belief and if you believe in something you should profess it. Not wait till you are away. It is strange that you find it important to be honest with CB but not with your parents.</p>
<p>Not strange at all to me - I had things that I preferred not to share with my mother and didn’t as a high school junior. And I think religion is a big deal, right up there with coming out as gay in the things that you put off telling your parents when you are STILL in high school. Lighten up on the kid people.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t see any indication of what religion if any my D selected and yea I have full access to her profile (since I paid for her tests). Good luck to you.</p>
<p>I’ll also be taking the January 25th test. Good luck! (or whatever you believe in)</p>