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January 10, 2003
A: FROM MENTOR AMY
IVES IN KY
When you take the exam, you are given an option of four
different universities to have your scores sent to without
additional
fees. If you chose to send your scores to additional schools,
you will
need to make a request to the testing organization either
online or by
phone and pay a fee for each additional score report sent.
A good
resource for information about the SAT is
www.collegeboard.com.
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A: FROM MENTOR KAREN SUHAKA
IN CO
You choose which universities (if any) you want to send your
scores
to when you sign up for the SAT. You can then send more scores
after the
fact. Read all about it here:
http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/html/sat_scores.html.
Read more about the
SATs in general at http://www.ets.org.
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A: FROM MENTOR DENISE HARBERT
IN IL
Hi Erika,
Your school's guidance counselor should have all of the current
information
on how the SAT works. I'm not sure if any of the GEM-SET mentors
can give
you a good answer to that question. Most of us (myself included)
are adult
career women who have not taken the SAT in many years and
probably don't
know the current rules. We're better at questions about what
you would do
in certain careers or why mechanical/biological things/organisms
work the
way they do. When I took the SAT about 15 years ago, I had
to register for
it in advance. The registration form asked me for my name,
address, social
security number, etc. It also asked me to list 3 schools that
they would
send my scores to for free. At that time, the schools got
the scores when
I did, so I didn't get the chance to look at them first. I
was OK with
that because I knew I was going to do well, but some of my
friends wanted
to see if their scores were good enough before they were sent
to the
schools. Those friends didn't put any schools on their registration
forms. They waited, and if their scores were good enough,
they wrote the
SAT people to ask to have the scores sent to the schools.
There used to be
an extra charge for that. The rules might be totally different
today. (I've heard that you can take the tests on a computer
now. They
used to have those paper fill-in-the-bubble sheets.) I'm sure
that someone
at your school can tell you how it works today, so ask around
at
school. Good luck!
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