Whether fair or not, these exams are often the determining factor in awarding many merit scholarships. Just today, one of my students (SAT 1800, #7 out of 600 students in her class, president of the debate team and state champion, 5 AP courses with 3+ scores) was shut out of a particular public university’s merit scholarship because her SAT score is 100 points below the university’s merit benchmark (and we are not talking flagship universities). At a private college, another strong student of mine was deferred to regular decision and told she would be reconsidered for acceptance if she took her SAT one more time (her current SAT is 1870, with a GPA of A, dual and AP credit).
SAT - Last opportunity to take the current SAT – January 23rd
ACT - With the upcoming changes to the SAT, more students than ever are taking the ACT, which makes early registration for spring 2016 tests essential. Anecdotally, we are already hearing that test centers for the spring 2016 ACT tests are starting to fill.
Registration is open for all of the spring ACT testing dates: February 6, April 9, and June 11 – see http://www.actstudent.org/regist/
Did you know that you can cancel a test score . . .
SAT – if you think that you did not do well on your test, you may cancel your score within a 48 hour period following the administration of the test – see https://sat.collegeboard.org/scores/cancel-sat-scores
ACT – you may permanently delete any test date score at any time – see http://www.actstudent.org/faq/delete.html
AP Scores – you may also have an AP score deleted, but to avoid a score being reported to a previously requested college, you must cancel the score by June 15th following the May exam – see https://apscore.collegeboard.org/scores/score-reporting