News' View: Score Choice is the wrong choice
Yale was right to reject the College Board’s new option to allow applicants to send only their best score on the SAT.
Yale announced yesterday it will not accept the College Board’s new Score Choice option for the SAT — a move that correctly recognizes that the option will elevate, not reduce, the college admissions frenzy.
The new option would allow students who take the SAT more than once to choose to send only their highest score to colleges. It is an echo of an abandoned system that granted students the same freedom for SAT Subject Tests, an option the College Board scrapped in 2002. The College Board was right to eliminate the option then, it is wrong to bring it back for the SAT and SAT...
Yale certainly made the right move in rejecting Score Choice. (What a disgusting way for the College Board to boost profits by making the process more unjust and stressful for everyone.)
But the lack of enforceability raises some concerns. This creates yet another opportunity for dishonesty on applications. What will Yale do about this?
When I was applying, the Yale app only asked for your highest Verbal and Math scores anyway. What's the difference?
Aren't you required to have ETS send an official score report? If you don't opt for this new choice, that report should have scores for all of your tests on it.
How is this going to work? The College Board is not going to "rat out" applicants for using Score Choice. Thanks for making the complex even more complex!
The policy is not unenforceable. The College Board is telling students they have score choice while telling colleges that they can decide whether to accept it or not; when COllege Board sends a score report to a college, it will have all of the student's scores if the individual college does not accept score choice. So College Board is lying to students when it says they have score choice.
if yale really wants to "to reduce the frenzy associated with college admissions," why not eliminate early applications?