Question about new policy for GRE score reporting

[thedeadsea]

I took the GRE a few months ago before the announcement that there would be a new policy for score reporting that would let you send scores from specific test dates (rather than the full record of your GRE scores). When I took the test, I sent my scores to a few different schools; however, now that the policy has changed, I'm wishing I could send my scores for just the last test and not include the scores from the test I took almost five years ago (my recent scores are well within the range of the most competitive schools I'm looking at; my older scores, not so much). Is it worth re-sending scores with just the most recent test date selected? Or would those scores just be added to a file that already has my earlier submitted scores that include the older numbers as well?

Anyone have any insights?

[Usmivka]

This will come down to the individual schools maintaining their own records. I doubt the schools will look much at the older scores, if at all, if they are truly nearly 5 years old. And the scores are one of the least important parts of your app (the way I look at it anyway), they are just a threshold to be passed--after that your letters of recc and publications will matter much more. Assuming you are in a field similar to mine, but that is hard to tell since you don't specify field.