Sending Official Score Reports to Grad and Professional Schools
By Muntasir Minhaz • Published Sep 18, 2026 • Updated Sep 18, 2026 • Graduate & Professional School
Each testing agency handles score delivery differently. ETS includes 4 free GRE score reports with registration and charges $40 for each extra one, LSAC bundles your LSAT score into a CAS report that costs $45 per law school, and AAMC releases MCAT scores 30-35 days after your test date and feeds them into AMCAS for participating schools.
📩 GRE: 4 free score recipients included, $40 per additional report
GRE scores appear in your ETS account 8-10 days after your test date
💵 LSAC CAS: $219 subscription valid 5 years, plus $45 per law school report
⏱️ MCAT scores release 30-35 days after your exam date
GMAT score reporting details and pricing vary, confirm current terms on mba.com
GRE: ScoreSelect and free reports
Your GRE registration fee includes 4 free score reports through ETS's ScoreSelect tool, according to ETS's scores page . You choose your recipients either on test day or after you see your scores, and you select which test dates to send if you took the GRE more than once.
Scores appear in your ETS account 8-10 days after your test date. Any report beyond the 4 free ones costs $40 per recipient, per ETS's fee schedule .
Plan your recipient list before you finish registering, since adding schools later costs money you would otherwise avoid. If you are still deciding on a final school list, wait until after you see your score to choose recipients rather than picking them blind on test day.
GMAT: reporting through mba.com
GMAC delivers GMAT Focus Edition scores to schools electronically through your mba.com account. Reporting terms, including how many reports come with your registration fee and the cost of extra ones, are set out on mba.com and change over time, so confirm the current terms before you test rather than relying on older information.
LSAC: one CAS report per school
Law schools do not receive a raw LSAT score directly. Instead, LSAC combines your LSAT score, a summarized and authenticated transcript, and your letters of recommendation into a single Credential Assembly Service report, then sends a customized version of that report to each school you apply to.
A CAS subscription costs $219 and stays active for 5 years, and each individual law school report costs $45, according to LSAC's fee page .
You pay the $45 report fee separately for every school on your list, whether you apply to 5 schools or 20, so factor that into your application budget early. LSAC also offers fee waivers for applicants who qualify financially, covering the CAS subscription and a set number of law school reports.
MCAT: automatic delivery to AMCAS schools
AAMC releases official MCAT scores 30-35 days after your exam date, according to AAMC's MCAT scores page . If you apply through AMCAS, your scores flow into your application automatically once released, so you do not need to request delivery separately for AMCAS-participating medical schools.
Schools that do not use AMCAS, including some DO programs, post-baccalaureate programs, and non-US institutions, need a separate score delivery request through AAMC's system. Check each school's own instructions for how it wants to receive your score if it does not appear on the standard AMCAS list.
Plan your timeline around delivery, not test day
Build your application timeline around when scores actually reach schools, not when you sit for the test. A GRE score posts to your account in about a week and a half, while an MCAT score takes a month or more.
Register and test early enough that a slow score delivery does not put you past a program's deadline.