What does it mean to self-report scores?

Lots of costs come up when applying to college. Application fees and SAT and ACT registration costs are some of the more obvious ones. Another cost racks up the more colleges you apply to: fees for sending your scores to colleges.

You have to send score reports to each college, one per school. Both the SAT and ACT offer 4 free score reports, but there are additional fees for extra score reports. The cost is $12 per score report for the SAT and $13 per test date per report for the ACT. It adds up!

In an attempt to lessen the financial burden of applying to college, an increasing number of colleges and universities allow you to self-report your scores. Official score reports aren’t required until you’re accepted. Here’s a list of 178 schools that allow you to self-report your SAT and ACT scores.

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1. Agnes Scott College
2. Albright College
3. Amherst College
4. Appalachian State University
5. Augustana College
6. Babson College
7. Barnard College
8. Bates College
9. Baylor University
10. Beloit College
11. Bentley University
12. Binghamton University (SUNY)
13. Birmingham-Southern College
14. Bowdoin College
15. Brandeis University
16. Brown University
17. Bucknell University
18. Butler University
19. Caltech
20. Carleton College
21. Carroll College
22. Carthage College
23. Case Western Reserve University
24. Catawba College
25. Champlain College
26. Chapman University
27. Claremont McKenna College
28. Clark University
29. Clarkson University
30. Colby College
31. Colgate University
32. College of Charleston
33. College of the Holy Cross
34. College of William & Mary
35. Colorado College
36. Colorado School of Mines
37. Columbia University
38. Concordia College – Moorhead
39. Connecticut College
40. Cornell University
41. Creighton University
42. Davidson College
43. Denison University
44. DePaul University
45. DePauw University
46. Dickinson College
47. Duke University
48. Eckerd College
49. Elon University
50. Emory University
51. Fairfield University
52. Florida Atlantic University
53. Florida State University
54. Fordham University
55. Franklin & Marshall College
56. Franklin College
57. Franklin Pierce University
58. George Mason University
59. Georgia Tech
60. Gettysburg College
61. Guilford College
62. Hamilton College
63. Hampden-Sydney College (VA)
64. Harvard College
65. Harvey Mudd College
66. Haverford College
67. Hollins University
68. Illinois State University
69. Indiana University
70. Iowa State University
71. Johns Hopkins University
72. Kansas State University
73. Kenyon College
74. Lafayette College
75. Lamar University
76. Lawrence University
77. Lehigh University
78. Lenoir-Rhyne University
79. Lewis & Clark College
80. Louisiana State University
81. Loyola Marymount University
82. Loyola University Chicago
83. Macalester College
84. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
85. Miami University (OH)
86. Michigan State University
87. Middlebury College
88. Millsaps College
89. Mount Holyoke
90. Muhlenberg College
91. NC State University
92. New College of Florida
93. Northeastern University
94. Northern Arizona University
95. Northwestern University
96. NYIT (New York Inst of Technology)
97. Oberlin College
98. Occidental College
99. Old Dominion University
100. Olin College of Engineering
101. Pacific Lutheran University
102. Pomona College
103. Providence College
104. Purdue University
105. Quinnipiac University
106. Reed College
107. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
108. Rice University
109. Rochester Institute of Technology
110. Roger Williams University
111. Saint Anselm College
112. Saint Louis University
113. Santa Clara University
114. Sarah Lawrence College
115. Scripps College
116. Seattle University
117. Sewanee (The University of the South)
118. Shenandoah University
119. Southern Methodist University
120. Southwestern University
121. St. Edward’s University
122. St. Lawrence University
123. St. Olaf College
124. Stanford University
125. Stevens Institute of Technology
126. Stevenson University
127. Suffolk University
128. SUNY Oswego
129. Susquehanna University
130. Swarthmore College
131. Texas Christian University
132. The College of Wooster
133. The University of Oklahoma
134. Trinity University
135. Tufts University
136. Tulane University
137. UMass Lowell
138. UNC Chapel Hill
139. UNC Charlotte
140. Union College
141. University of California system
142. University of Chicago
143. University of Delaware
144. University of Hawaii, Manoa
145. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
146. University of Iowa
147. University of Kansas
148. University of Miami
149. University of Michigan (2020-21)
150. University of Minnesota
151. University of Nebraska system
152. University of Northern Iowa
153. University of Notre Dame
154. University of Pennsylvania
155. University of Portland
156. University of Puget Sound
157. University of Redlands
158. University of Richmond
159. University of Rochester
160. University of San Francisco
161. University of South Carolina
162. University of St. Thomas
163. University of Tulsa
164. University of Virginia
165. University of Wisconsin, Madison
166. Valparaiso University
167. Vanderbilt University
168. Villanova University
169. Virginia Tech
170. Washington & Lee University
171. Washington U in St. Louis
172. Wellesley College
173. Western Michigan University
174. Whitman College
175. Whitworth University
176. Williams College
177. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
178. Yale University

Be sure to check out admissions websites for more information.