So I am really nervous right now… When I took my SAT last December I got a 2190, but the on the recent one a 2100. I dropped 90 points. How will this affect my chances at UCLA and UC Berkeley. I am also a California resident and have a gpa of 4.33 straight A’s all the way through high school. Number one on my Varsity tennis team, treasurer of key club and have 200 hours of volunteer work, and part of other clubs to. I am also in choir, made state band 2 years in a row, and have won art competitions and speech contests. The SAT drop however is really scaring me… 
The UC’s require you send all scores and they will select the highest SAT score from a single sitting so the 2190 SAT will stand. No worries, no one is perfect and dropping a little will not hurt your chances. If you do not get accepted at UCLA/UCB next year, it will not be due to your SAT. Make sure you spend this summer working on those essays. They will have a large impact on your chances. Good Luck.
Thank you so much! I will definitely work on the essays. I was worried just because I thought a 90 point drop was a lot.
When College Board came out with Score Choice a number of years ago, many of my classmates were wondering, will the schools really know if we choose not to send some scores? Wasn’t the point of Score Choice to be able to choose what we want to do with tests we spend our money taking and preparing for?
@phospholipase To my knowledge, the benefits of Score Choice was rendered obsolete when the top colleges made it mandatory for you to send all of your scores. Colleges not in the top fifty rankings or so most likely don’t mind the use of Score Choice though.
@storian I guess my question is really, do schools know if you withheld scores and used Score Choice? My impression is that it’s based on an honor code.
@phospholipase
I Googled it just now and the general consensus on all the relevant CC threads is that colleges do not know if you withhold scores from them (thus it is an honor code). However, colleges that discover that they’ve been duped would most likely rescind their offer of admission.
High schools usually receive SAT scores of their students so colleges could find out the testing history of a student by looking at what his or her high school is transmitting to them in a transcript.
I found the info [here](http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1705246-i-didnt-send-all-sat-scores-even-though-school-required-it.html) and [here](http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/1701897-do-colleges-know-if-you-use-score-choice.html).