Submitting SAT scores

[Anonymous]

If s school says self reporting is ok, do you still submit?

[Anonymous]

If the school accepts self-reported scores, then no, you don't need to submit the official report right now. When you get the admission portal, make sure the scores were received.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the school accepts self-reported scores, then no, you don't need to submit the official report right now. When you get the admission portal, make sure the scores were received.

What do you mean by “when you get the admission portal”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the school accepts self-reported scores, then no, you don't need to submit the official report right now. When you get the admission portal, make sure the scores were received.

What do you mean by “when you get the admission portal”?

Within a few days after you submit an application to a college, the college will email you login credentials for your admission portal. You can then login to your admission portal to check the status of various components of your file, such as test scores.

[Anonymous]

So you are saying that although they say self reported, you still need to submit official scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you are saying that although they say self reported, you still need to submit official scores?

If they accept self-reported scores, then you self-report as their instructions indicate, usually in the app but sometimes in the portal. If they admit you, and you decide to attend, then you send an official score report to prove the scores you had previously self-reported.

[Anonymous]

Apparently it’s a big administrative burden for the offices to receive every applicant’s submitted scores so they really don’t want you to until after accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are saying that although they say self reported, you still need to submit official scores?

If they accept self-reported scores, then you self-report as their instructions indicate, usually in the app but sometimes in the portal. If they admit you, and you decide to attend, then you send an official score report to prove the scores you had previously self-reported.

Agreed. But do make sure you double-check each school's requirements. DD was almost caught out by forgetting about a couple of schools that did want official scores.

[Anonymous]

Having recently read on here about a school requesting an applicant withdraw scores (so as not to lower average for rankings), I also wonder if that’s part of the reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having recently read on here about a school requesting an applicant withdraw scores (so as not to lower average for rankings), I also wonder if that’s part of the reason.

This is a very interesting question. It would not surprise me if self-submitted scores are not counted for purposes of the school’s stats unless the official report is sent. It then allows the school to decide if the scores are high enough to be counted or not. If the scores are marginal, but they still want to admit the student, they could effectively treat them as test optional by just never requesting the official report. Yet another way to game the system.