While McGrath Lewis said that the change in policy might be problematic for students, she agreed that Harvard’s admissions policies will remain the same.

“We pay attention to the three highest scores, and students often send more than three,” she said. “[The admissions]process [is] laden with good information of which scores are only a small part,” she said.

Students already accept that colleges will be able to see all of their SAT I scores, regardless of how many times they take the test, McGrath Lewis noted.

“I don’t think there’s any concern taking the SAT I more than once. Somehow that same logic has not seemed to apply to SAT II tests,” McGrath Lewis said.

O’Reilly noted that eliminating the score choice will be cheaper for students, who in the past had to pay to send reports to colleges after previewing their scores.

But he could not say whether the change will affect the number of students taking SAT II tests.

“We may see some lost income with fewer students testing or students taking fewer tests,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to be major.”

Cairns said that the new change will not change her advice to students.

“I will still encourage my sophomores to take the SAT IIs,” Cairns said.

The Score Choice option was first implemented in 1993 as an “attempt to give students a low stakes testing opportunity,” O’Reilly said.

The change will not affect any students taking tests this spring.