How do I send my SAT scores to colleges?

The four free sends are use-it-or-lose-it, and that creates a genuine dilemma for juniors: you can lock in free sends before you know your score, or wait until you see the score and pay per report. There is no universally correct answer. Students confident they will apply to a given school regardless of the score often use the free sends; students who want to see the number first generally should not, and should budget for paid sends instead.

Score Choice lets you decide which test dates to send. The important limit: you choose whole test dates, not individual sections — you cannot mix the math from one sitting with the reading and writing from another. That is a separate thing from superscoring, which is something colleges do on their end with whatever you send them, not something you assemble yourself.

Some colleges ask for all scores from all sittings, and their policy overrides your preference. Before using Score Choice strategically, read the testing policy of each school on your list — it is usually on the admissions site under testing requirements, and the policies are not uniform.

Timing is the part that bites people. Standard delivery runs roughly one to two weeks, and application deadlines do not move. Two weeks of cushion before a deadline is the minimum sane margin, and more is better in November and December when volume is highest.

Brainrise has no access to anyone's College Board account and cannot send scores — all of this happens on their side. We flag it here because "when do I actually send these?" is a deadline question, and deadline questions are the ones families lose points on for reasons that have nothing to do with the test.