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Question on Test Scores Is Tweaked on the Common Application College Admissions Advice - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com

College Admissions Advice - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com

Question on Test Scores Is Tweaked on the Common Application

Common Application Web site

1:54 p.m. | Updated See below for an additional way to get further information on this change.

This year’s version of the Common Application, which went live on the Web late on the evening of July 31, includes something of a tweak on the section in which applicants are asked to self-report their standardized test scores to the colleges they are applying to. (Official reports will, of course, be sent to those colleges directly by the scorers of the SAT and ACT, respectively.)

Applicants are now given the option on the Common Application to report