Do students report # of SATs on common app or applications?

[Anonymous]

Do students report # of SATs taken on common app or applications? I realize that a couple of schools require reporting of all scores.

[Anonymous]

That might be a question asked by certain schools, but it's not asked on the common part of the app.

You can see everything that's asked if you make a practice account for yourself.

[Anonymous]

If you are superscoring you need to report the test dates for each subsection. At the top there will be how many are you using? My kid put “2” ACT

Common app will ask how many tests you are using—you put the date you got the high subsection score next to the score you report.

A superscore report from college board will send all the tests from the dates you use.

So on ACT if you are using a subs section from 4 different tests- they will see you took it 4 times. If you use 3 different test dates- they will see 3 dates, etc.

[Anonymous]

Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

Yes- but it’s a very small number. Like only 7 schools total and other than GU, not very popular ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

Georgetown goes to common app next year so that will probably change

[Anonymous]

Do Cornell AOs see all scores, even if they superscore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Cornell AOs see all scores, even if they superscore?

No, not if they accept scores self-reported in the application. The Common App testing section does not have fields for the lower section scores.

[Anonymous]

Can I conclude from this that taking an official SAT test multiple times (3-5 times) won’t hurt a candidates chances for most schools? (Georgetown being one well known exception)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I conclude from this that taking an official SAT test multiple times (3-5 times) won’t hurt a candidates chances for most schools? (Georgetown being one well known exception)

It will hurt in that there's an opportunity cost of all the time spent taking and preparing that often, and that time could be spent in ways that would support the application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

Yes- but it’s a very small number. Like only 7 schools total and other than GU, not very popular ones

Haa, haa. Caltech and MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

Yes- but it’s a very small number. Like only 7 schools total and other than GU, not very popular ones

Haa, haa. Caltech and MIT.

These two only ask for all scores for the purpose of superscoring. They don't actually require all scores. If requiring all scores is their intent, they do a very poor job of making that clear; their language is ambiguous.

[Anonymous]

You will have to list the date for any score used from that date and how many years used…

So for act of you took it twice and were using a subsection from both they would see that- but if you took it 3 times and you aren’t using any subsections from one if the dates- you could just report the 2.

[Anonymous]

* how many tests used - not years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some schools want to see all test attempts, e.g. Georgetown

Yes- but it’s a very small number. Like only 7 schools total and other than GU, not very popular ones

Haa, haa. Caltech and MIT.

These two only ask for all scores for the purpose of superscoring. They don't actually require all scores. If requiring all scores is their intent, they do a very poor job of making that clear; their language is ambiguous.

MIT uses verbiage like “all tests should be reported” but does not outright require them.