SAT1 and SAT2

When registering for the SAT, you may choose to send up to 4 free score reports to colleges and scholarship programs. You can send additional score reports for a fee by accessing the College Board website. Your scores will be submitted to colleges about three weeks after you submit your request. The College Boards notes that the speed of delivery depends on how each college receives scores, but in any case, you should allow plenty of time.  Rush reporting requests are processed within a few days. You can access information about how to send scores at the College Board website.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  When you get online to order scores to be sent to colleges or scholarship programs, only score reports from completed and scored tests will be included.  Check your SAT Status page to see which scores are available to send. Since you will be charged for each new request beyond the 4 free ones you are allowed to select at registration, one option is to wait until all SAT testing is complete before requesting that your scores be sent.  The College Board urges you to arrange to send tests every time you register, to show colleges you are interested, but note that only the first 4 reports are free. 

New Flexible Score Reporting Options

ACT has always allowed students to pick which test results to report (by test date), but now there will be more flexibility for the SAT as well. Until this year, score reports included results from all SAT1 and SAT2 tests ever taken by a student to date. Now you can choose which SAT1 and SAT2 results to send. This clearly gives students more options, but there are a few caveats.

• For the SAT1, you may not mix and match from different test dates -- i.e., the reading score from one date and the math from another. If you want colleges to see a high score in one subtest from your May test and a high score on a different subtest from your October test, you must send all scores from both test sittings. You CAN choose which particular SAT2 scores you want colleges to see, however.
• Some schools are requiring students to send all test results anyway. These schools cut across the range of selectivity; in fact, they trend a little less selective. Here is a list the College Board has put together of the score reporting policies of hundreds of colleges.
• The College Board does not update this list regularly or guarantee accuracy, so CHECK OUT THE SCORE REPORTING POLICIES for your colleges on their own websites!  Some want your highest score from a single test date, some look at your highest subtest scores, some want all your scores but only look at the highest scores -- they are all over the map!

In general, you shouldn't overthink this. Schools are very motivated to harvest your highest scores, so that they have higher averages to report to the public. In asking for all your scores anyway, they may be doing nothing more than making sure they get all your highest scores.  Moreover, the Common Application now allows you to list your highest subtest scores for both ACT and SAT1. 

ACT

The procedures for sending ACT scores are similar to those for SAT. You can access information on sending scores at the ACT website.

Advanced Placement

The Common Application now asks you to list your AP scores, as do application forms from many non-Common App schools. 

Bur AP scores are not sent to colleges along with SAT scores, even though both the SAT and AP programs are administered by the College Board.   Rather, you self-report your AP scores (or at least those that you would like to share) on the college’s application. AP scores are quite expensive to send via the College Board’s reporting service, and colleges do not require official score reports as part of the application process.

If you want AP credit upon matriculation to your chosen college, in order to qualify for a higher placement in a particular field, you can request that the scores be sent at that time.

Fair Test: 
Test-Optional Colleges

ACT vs. SAT

Compass --
SAT2 Requirements

SAT2 - FAQ

The College Board

ACT Site

Kaplan's ACT / SAT Quiz Banks

Princeton Review's Word of the Day

Worksheet:
(ACT) or (SAT1 + SAT2)?

Smart Parent Critiques AP

Counselors' Corner: Should Students Take Both ACT and SAT?