Unofficial score report

[VulpesZerda]

When schools ask me to upload an unofficial score report, I'm a little unsure of what this is. When I'm logged into my GRE account, there is the option to get a printer friendly download of the report, but it shows my old scores which I don't want anyone to know about, and it also shows that I cancelled my subject test. How can I upload just my good scores- am I missing something?

[Crucial BBQ]

I am not sure if you can manipulate your ETS score page to only show the sores that you want.  

 

I ran into the same dilemma last year....they got to see everything.  

[TakeruK]

When you are viewing your own version of the score report, you will always see all of the scores! There's no option to only display certain scores. 

 

For one school, the official score report somehow didn't make it to my application so they asked for an unofficial version to make the decision. This was before ScoreSelect but I didn't want to school to know about my subject GRE score (they didn't ask for it) nor did I want them to see where else I sent the scores, so I downloaded the "printer friendly version" and then use an image editing program to remove the information I did not want them to see. 

 

I did this in a transparent manner (i.e. I didn't carefully "doctor" the document so that the hidden information was not clear). Instead, I basically pasted a giant ugly white box over all areas of the page that did not show anything useful and wrote a note in the white box describing what I was doing. Thus, I basically blocked out everything except the details of the test they needed to see and my identifying info. 

 

I would recommend a similar action in the era of ScoreSelect. I think it's a good idea to block out giant areas of the page so it's not like they can count the number of whited-/blacked-out rectangles and figure out how many tests you are not showing. If you are worried about how the school will feel about this action, you can check with them first. However, in my opinion, I think it's really dumb to require a student to upload the unofficial score report as it contains so much private information. I feel that if schools are okay with receiving unofficial scores, they should just ask the student to self submit the score by entering the score into a form (in my application year, most of my schools wanted either self-reported unofficial scores or official ETS score reports; no one initially asked for the unofficial score report, save the special circumstance above).

[VulpesZerda]

Thanks very much, that makes sense. If they're going to allow ScoreSelect, it doesn't seem like such a bad thing to do. The funny thing is, they asked me for the official score, and the upload of the unofficial score, AND a manual entry of the scores. Pretty redundant. Same application that makes us manually enter our transcript information! They're testing my patience

[Persis]

Thanks very much, that makes sense. If they're going to allow ScoreSelect, it doesn't seem like such a bad thing to do. The funny thing is, they asked me for the official score, and the upload of the unofficial score, AND a manual entry of the scores. Pretty redundant. Same application that makes us manually enter our transcript information! They're testing my patience

How do you get an unofficial GRE score?  Does ETS mail it? Because i have not received anything from them, and i wrote mine on Oct. 18th.  I can only see my scores online.

[TakeruK]

How do you get an unofficial GRE score?  Does ETS mail it? Because i have not received anything from them, and i wrote mine on Oct. 18th.  I can only see my scores online.

 

ETS does not mail it anymore, from what I've heard. You can print it from the online report.

[Persis]

ETS does not mail it anymore, from what I've heard. You can print it from the online report.

oh ok great. thank you

[gliaful]

I think sending it as-is would still be okay. Many students retake the test and the schools can't make assumptions about why you would retake it -- for all they know, you could have fainted mid-test, ran out of time, and your score only reflects partial completion of the test. The canceled subject test is fine, too -- life happens. Most schools consider your best scores anyway.

[mb712]

Similar question... Should I crop my unofficial score report to exclude the list of all of the places I have sent my scores to? I feel a little strange about telling schools I am applying to all of the places I am applying.