Send scores now or wait?

me29034
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:27:39 +0000

D is applying to 2 schools EA that have Nov deadlines, and 2 schools that use rolling admissions that she also plans to apply to in the same time frame. She took the SAT last spring and did well for her. Her current scores are above 50th percentile for two of the schools and above 75th percentile for the other two, but we are hoping for merit money. One of the four is moderately selective, the other three have greater than 50% acceptance rates.

In order to maximize her scores for the merit money, she will be retaking the SAT in October. She wasn’t originally planning to do this, but she got a free SAT retake because of the timing issue and decided to see if she could improve. Since anything can happen, we don’t want to send the scores out automatically just in case she doesn’t do as well. But, if we wait until the new results come out before sending anything, it will be the end of October. My understanding is that CB takes several weeks to send scores out after requested. So the schools may not get them until the end of November. This will be after their deadlines.

So now the questions. Should she send her current results now, and then update with the new results in late October if they are better? If we send her current results, and then she sends a new better set, will they automatically reevaluate her application with the new information? Maybe if this happens, she should e-mail her admissions rep to let them know that a new better set is coming? I don’t want her to send the old ones and have them overlook new better ones when determining awards but also don’t want to miss the deadlines.