Why doesn't the college board allow you to report only the highest scores?

<p>So many colleges say “We only evaluate you on the highest scores we recieve on each individual section.” Why doesn’t the college board allow you to report only your highest scores from each section(both SATI and SATII)? Obviously it should be denoted on the report that this was the case, but I see no reason why the college board should not allow this service. It would hold colleges up to their promise of not looking at other scores.</p>

<p>Well, not all colleges look at the highest scores on each section so I guess that college board has left it up to the colleges to do what they want with the scores. CB gives all the information they have to the colleges and if the college looks only at the highest scores, there is no reason not to send all of the scores anyway.</p>

<p>Well, a college may say that they don’t look at all the scores, but surely the person reading your application is looking at a copy of your score report and can see all of your scores. I see this as a way of keeping colleges honest, so that they really only can see your top scores. A student should be able to send a full copy of his/her score report as is now, but I think the college board should allow you (for an additional fee?) to release only your top scores when sending out score reports.</p>

<p>it would distinguish a person who got a 2400 in one sitting with nothing better to do and a person who got a 2400 in 10 sittings with nothing better than do.</p>

<p>yes, this will never happen</p>