Sending scores?

[GwenWoods]

I'm a little confused on the whole ScoreSelect deal. So, with this new system, if I choose to send my scores for free on test day, before seeing them, can I later decide to "unsend" them and replace them with new test scores (assuming I retook the test and did better the second time), or will the institution forever have copies of both test scores?

[pemdas]

it's all here http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about/scoreselect

please read and comprehend @ maxi as this is the only valid source, and any useful answer you get will be based on that source

[ssk2]

No - once they're sent, they're sent.

Are you taking the paper test? On the electronic test you are shown your quantitative and verbal scores before deciding whether to send them (not AWA though).

If you're concerned about sending through weaker scores just wait and send them afterwards. It will cost you a little more but in the overall context of graduate school applications. it's a minimal extra cost.

[chaetzli]

Want you can do is: report scores -> then you can see your scores. If they are not as good as expected just do not send them to the universities you wish to apply (this step follows after your scores appears on the screen). If you retake the test just choose the select score option and the university will receiv your latest scores and only these scores.

[slvitale]

So, now that I took the GRE and sent my scores to my "choice" schools it wouldn't be helpful to retake and resend?

[marco_math]

One question:

I see that the fee to send scores is 25 dollars per recipient. I plan to apply to about ten schools for Fall 2013 (you know...to optimize my chances of getting in somewhere) and have to send my toefl, general gre and subject gre to each school. Suppose that I have already sent my scores to four of the ten schools I am applying to, do I have to pay 25 dollars for each one of the tests I have to send? That would be 75 dollars to send all my scores per school giving a total of 450 dollars. That is a lot of money just to send scores isn´t it?

[TakeruK]

Once you have sent scores to a school, they will have access to them forever. If you really want to select the score to be sent to each school, then you must NOT take advantage of the four free schools (score reports) and pay the ~$25 for each school individually.

Note that prior to July 2012 (i.e. everyone who applied to grad school before the Fall 2013 cohort), ScoreSelect isn't an option. So, every school saw every single test score we took. To me, this means that it is no big deal if you got, e.g. 70% percentile and retook it and then got 90% percentile. I got the impression from the application process that the schools will take your best score, especially if there is a big increase. I guess it would be worrisome if you repeatedly scored "low" and the school saw that in all 4 tries, you kept getting a "low" score, but otherwise, I don't think it's a big deal to send all your scores.

Especially in this application season, with the first use of ScoreSelect, adcomms will still be used to seeing multiple test scores from applicants, so I don't think it will hurt you too much to send more than one score.

If you ask me, this new option is bad for students as it now puts pressure for us to spend more money to send scores and to take the test multiple times to get a higher score (In the past, if you have scored e.g. 80% but thought you were capable of 90%, you might not want to retake it since it's risky and they will see both scores anyways. Now, students will feel more pressure to retake and see if they can get 90%, if not they can always just send the 80% score only. This means more money spent on taking tests and sending score reports!!)

As for cost, macro_math, your Subject and General test scores can be sent in one score report (but maybe not if you use ScoreSelect). In the past, when you order a score report, you tick off boxes if you want to send General scores or Subject scores (you can tick off both). I think you can still do this now if you pick the "ALL" option in ScoreSelect. Either way, applying to 10 schools is a reasonable number and it does cost a lot of money