<p>The GC swore that colleges hound him as a matter of course if there is only one SAT score.</p>
<p>My daughter will not, of course, score anywhere near 750.</p>
<p>It sounds like you just have a lazy GC inventing excuses. </p>
<p>Suggestion: tell the GC that your D. only intends to take the test once, and then suggest that on the report that he sends to colleges that he type that info in all caps: STUDENT ONLY TOOK SATS ONCE. Then the colleges won’t call.</p>
<p>“It sounds like you just have a lazy GC inventing excuses.”</p>
<p>He really should retire. He’s been a GC for 47 years and is very old and not as healthy as he once was (who is?). I think being responsible for so many kids as well as being the hospice priest and a parish priest is too much for a man of his age and health status. But who am I to judge. I know we’re going to have trouble next year because he demands to see every page of every application and send them in on his own timetable, whereas I want to send the applications out from home and just have him send his rec and the transcripts. This could get ugly.</p>
<p>zoosermom-
Could you possibly talk to the head of the school about these bizarre “requirements”? Has this GC always been this controlling, or did this rigid thinking surface after his stroke? If the latter is true, I’d guess his stroke was in the frontal lobe. That could explain impaired judgement, inflexible thinking, etc. </p>
<p>If the head of school addreses the situation, it should hopefullly stave off any potential conflict between you and the GC, especially since your daughter will need a recommendation letter from him. I cannot imagine any GC wanting to control every aspect of every student’s application process, especially one who sounds so overextended already. And I find even more incredulous the possibility that college adcomms pester him with questions about how often a student takes the SAT. Especially with the longer test and the higher price, less and less students are taking it more than once (which is what College Board is claiming explains the drop in this year’s SAT scores).</p>
<p>By the way, my s. took the SAT’s once, in spring of his soph. yr. He did extremely well, and never took it again. He got into his first choice school ED.</p>
<p>Good luck with this all, zoosermom, the GC seems to have some control issues, if nothing else. </p>
<p>If your D does have to take the wretched SAT again, she may do better now that she knows she has a solid act score.</p>
<p>It is probably due to a low average on the school’s profile. Most students do better the second time they take the SAT so the school’s average will go up. Go to your school website and look at the profile. If the average seems low that is probably why they insist on it. You don’t want to make her take it again but you don’t want to upset the counselor.</p>
<p>MrsP might be on to something. This has NOTHING to do with the colleges. They DO NOT care if you take it one, two, or three times. (Four, they might think kind of weird.) But the High School might care.</p>
<p>either that, or the GC has stock in the nonprofit collegeboard.</p>
<p>“either that, or the GC has stock in the nonprofit collegeboard.”</p>
<p>This is why it’s weird. The man is an 80-year old priest. He can’t possibly have an ulterior motive and it’s a private school so their test scores aren’t public. I think it may be a control thing, I really do. He also likes to give girls a particularly hard time. He was GC in an all boys school for decades and his heart is still there even though he is now working in a co-ed school.</p>
<p>I agree that it’s about the HS profile, ESPECIALLY because this is a private school. Reputation is very important to most privates. It’s what allows them to recruit ever more competitive applicants, leading to even more competitive college acceptances, donations to the school and so on in a continuing cycle!</p>
<p>Are the test scores kept from prospective applicants, too?</p>
<p>The test scores are not ever made available to anyone outside of the Archdiocese.</p>