Score Reports Mailling Date for October Test?

[milkvincent]

Hi everyone, I have scheduled the BCMB subject test on Oct 10th. On the GRE website, it says the approximate mailing date will be on Nov 20th. However, the fact is that I apply to more than 4 schools. So if I want to order additional reports, does that mean I have to wait until 20th? That would be too late because many schools have deadline on Dec 1st. In the website I also found out that the score may be available already on Nov 9th. Does that mean I actually can order my score reports after that day, through the ASRs online system or by phone?

By the way, what takes ETS so long to process the scores? Don't they just use scantrons? Why would they need 4 weeks in order to process scantrons? And we pay hundreds dollars for this slow service....That's just some bs right there....And why don't we get the choice of putting more schools for score reports during registration? Just what are they thinking?

[wolf26ts]

I'm also taking the exam tomorrow! According to the ETS website, the score report is mailed on Nov. 20, and additional score reports are sent 5 business days after the request, so essentially the scores could make it to your schools by the end of Nov. It's cutting it close, but you might want to call and see if you can order additional score reports right after having called in by phone for your test scores on Nov. 9.

[milkvincent]

Thanks for your reply. I emailed ETS almost five times, asking them whether I could pre-order my reports. While they did reply every time I emailed them, they kept giving me useless information (mostly just copy-and-pasting information already present in the website, which I have already read through thousand times and my answer was not in there of course). I just found out by myself that you actually can pre-order your reports because I saw these instructions when I tried to order reports through the ASRs online system:

Score reports for a future scheduled test date will be mailed when scores for that test date are available (see score report mailing dates).

So, I guess I can pre-order them, instead of waiting for the arrival of my copy of the report.