<p>I’m taking SAT1 this jan and I want to use the 4 free score submissions, but I haven’t even started applying yet. At what stage of my application should I start sending in my scores? If I submit now (ie at the start of feb), will the universities just ignore the scores since I do not ‘exist’ in their records yet?</p>
<p>They’ll keep your scores. Go ahead and send them.</p>
<p>So it doesn’t matter that I haven’t started applying yet?</p>
<p>But if I get a really bad score, and retake it. Then re-submit, do I just send the newer score and the university’ll just ‘aggregate’ the 2 sets of results for when I come to officially apply? The alternative would be to wait to see the result, and send the scores if they are satisfactory.</p>
<p>No, like yodastreet said, it doesn’t that you haven’t applied yet - they’ll keep it on file for you. You can certainly wait for the scores to come out, see how you do and then send the score reports, but then you forfeit the four free reports that come with the registration. It’s your choice.</p>
<p>Some schools will “aggregate” the scores like you said, and that’s called superscoring. Others will only consider single sittings of a test. Just depends on where you’re sending them to.</p>
<p>Is it the same way for ACT scores?</p>
<p>Since universities are supposed to treat SATs and ACTs the same, they will probably do the same for ACT scores. But TBC.</p>