<p>I’m seeing the term in these threads ‘non school choice’. How can a school be non-school choice? How would they even know if you chose not to send them your scores. My son took SAT’s in May - did very well in math and not so well in CR and WR (not bad, but not great). He’s retaking next week to pull CR and WR up if possible without pulling math down. If the October results are bad, we were just planning to send May - how would the schools he’s applying to know that he even took them in October? </p>
<p>We were planning to wait until Oct. 29 when scores are available and then rush them to the 4 schools whose EA deadlines are 11/1. I was planning on sending the May scores at that time too.</p>
<p>I think the concern is that when the high school sends the transcripts, the “score sticky” will be on the transcript for every ACT and SAT that your child took.</p>
<p>As noted, one way they can learn of the scores is if your high school puts all your scores on your official transcript (large numbers of high schools do) Otherwise it is mainly an honor system with the caveat that intentionally witholding scores from a college that requires all could be grounds for withdrawing any admission if they find out.</p>
<p>Before you go and “rush” those scores at end of October, you should check two things: (a) almost all EA and ED colleges with Nov 1 deadlines accept scores that arrive after that date and you do not need to rush; in fact majority even accept Nov tests; (b) a lot of schools will not accept rush scores – they get scores usually every two weeks electronically which is their “regular delivery” and if you order rush the only thing that will happen is that the College Board will just send them the regular way for which you did not have to pay the rush cost (and, of course, College Board won’t give you your money back).</p>
<p>However, what a school may mean by all scores may differ particularly when it comes to the ACT which the college board report does not cover. The all scores colleges mainly require that you not exercise score choice when sending SAT scores (SAT and SAT IIs) and then some require all ACT scorres, some require no ACTs if you submit SAT and accept score choice for ACT if you submit it, and some appear to not require any SATs if you submit only ACT. So you need to check each college but unfortunately a number of them do not make clear on their sites exactly what they require particularly in relation to the ACT. Personal view is that all the anti-score choice schools should get over their little boy, whining, anal reaction to the College’s Board’s adoption of score choice and just accept it, but at the very least they should not leave things ambiguous when they set out their policy on their websites.</p>
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<li><p>This should be stickied. Drusba’s link to the College Board’s PDF is great info…</p></li>
<li><p>Just to confirm “all scores” applies to both the SAT and Subject Tests? (I did HORRIBLY on one of my subject tests and would really like to avoid sending that.)</p></li>
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<p>^ High schools adhere stickers with your SAT, ACT, and SAT II scores along the bottom of the students transcript. When the transcript is copied and sent to colleges, those scores would be visible to the college. There is discussion whether high schools will cease this practice due to score choice.</p>