Kids Can Pick Which SAT Scores to Send to Colleges
U.S. News &
World Report
24 June 2008
by Lucia Graves
Attention high school juniors: Starting next spring, you can determine which of your SAT scores a college gets to see. The College Board's current policy is that if you send one score to a school, that college can also see the scores from every time you've taken the test. But starting in March 2009, students will be able to hide SAT-taking blemishes like a low score or maybe the fact that they took the test half a dozen times...
But if there's really no advantage to taking the SAT more than twice, then why make it possible for kids with money to do so? Ned Johnson of PrepMatters Inc., a test preparatory and educational counseling firm in Bethesda, Md., explains that the student has "everything to gain and nothing to lose." He adds that while some families will surely go to excess and sign students up to take the test a dozen if not two dozen times, he thinks such cases will be rare.
Regardless of the debate between the College Board and its critics, the policy change is expected to be popular with students. "I think it's a lovely thing for kids to be able to go in and swing for the fences," says Johnson. "The typical kid will be just delighted by this."
24 June 2008
by Lucia Graves
Attention high school juniors: Starting next spring, you can determine which of your SAT scores a college gets to see. The College Board's current policy is that if you send one score to a school, that college can also see the scores from every time you've taken the test. But starting in March 2009, students will be able to hide SAT-taking blemishes like a low score or maybe the fact that they took the test half a dozen times...
But if there's really no advantage to taking the SAT more than twice, then why make it possible for kids with money to do so? Ned Johnson of PrepMatters Inc., a test preparatory and educational counseling firm in Bethesda, Md., explains that the student has "everything to gain and nothing to lose." He adds that while some families will surely go to excess and sign students up to take the test a dozen if not two dozen times, he thinks such cases will be rare.
Regardless of the debate between the College Board and its critics, the policy change is expected to be popular with students. "I think it's a lovely thing for kids to be able to go in and swing for the fences," says Johnson. "The typical kid will be just delighted by this."
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