Sending SAT scores in for Summer Internship Applications

shadowyams
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:32:08 +0000

I’ve sent screenshots and printouts of SAT scores, and I got into City of Hope, so you shouldn’t have any problems with unofficial reports. I don’t think most programs can receive official reports, anyway.

Scores typically don’t matter much, once you’re past a certain bar. Most applicants are going to score high anyway, so it’s not a particularly useful discriminating factor. Your potential mentors and the admissions committee of these programs are probably going to be professional researchers who, quite frankly, really don’t care about how well you performed one Saturday morning (assuming, of course, that you didn’t completely fail the exams).