<p>At our visit last summer the admin rep specifically told us NOT to bother sending SAT scores. He basically said they toss them and don’t even give it a second look. Yet, when you visit the application page of the NEC website it lists their college ID # for the SAT/ACT.</p>
<p>Do we send? S scores were excellent but don’t want to create more work for admissions if they don’t actually want it. </p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with this school regarding SAT?</p>
<p>We did not submit scores last year. The NEC website specifically says, “Standardized test scores for the SAT, ACT and GRE are not required for any applicant.” I would not spend the money sending them.</p>
<p>I don’t know why their application would list their college ID # for SAT/ACT (some schools require SAT/ACT from international applicants, but NEC is not one of those). Perhaps the application just isn’t consistent with their policies. We did find a few instances of this when applying last year–it was very frustrating–trying to get things right, but getting conflicting messages from official information from the school (and I’m not even going into the irregularities between verbal and written info!).</p>
<p>I don’t think it would hurt a bit to send them, especially since his scores are excellent! We submitted D’s ACTs scores…</p>
<p>While conventional wisdom dictates that extra paper in the admissions file is undesirable, I think a really good SAT score is sufficiently different information from the rest of what NEC will get from you that it won’t be perceived as a bother, and, should your son be on the fence for admission or if there’s a tough decision about who gets a scholarship, it might matter just a little bit. It’s not very expensive. I’d do it.</p>
<p>It won’t hurt the student if they send in the SAT/ACT scores to a conservatory, but from everything admissions people at places like Juilliard, NEC and so forth that don’t require standardized tests have said, it also is not going to help them with admittance or scholarships (for places where high SAT’s would help the student, they are probably required anyway i.e music schools within LAC’s), those are determined based on how the student plays on the audition, and at one admissions fair someone asked if grades and standardized test scores would be used in such a situation, of borderline admits, and they said no, that borderline admits would prob be decided by whether a teacher wanted to work with them and possibly on things like potential or their musical cv. It doesn’t cost much to send the scores and in the odd chance it does help with something, why not?</p>
<p>I would have to wonder if it came down to two candidates of equal playing ability, would the excellent SAT scores help? I’d guess that they certainly couldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>There is anecdotal evidence that SAT scores might matter in a tie breaker, similar with grades. From what I have heard (don’t take this as anything but another experience) in the case of tie breakers they would be more likely to look at musical CVs and such and about teacher impressions of the candidates rather then grades or SAT’s…and the admissions people I have heard speak said flat out (these were conservatories) that SAT’s and grades were not used in the admission process, that they checked grades simply to make sure the person didn’t totally mess up in high school.</p>
<p>musicprnt -We basically were told just that at NEC two summers ago. That’s why I was a bit stumped as to why they listed their SAT/ACT codes on the website “apply” page.</p>