<p>I had 760 and 720 for CR before I got 800 in Oct 2007.</p>
<p>I took a SAT II Lit in Jan 2008 and I screwed up.</p>
<p>I'm deciding whether or not to cancel the Lit score. Should I cancel it if I know it's gonna be bad, but I am going to retake it and score well on it? Say if I get high 750s' in June 2008, but 650-700 in Jan 2008. Would the June score make up for my terrible Jan 2008 Lit score if I do not cancel the Jan score? How would they look at it?</p>
<p>((I'm a pure sci student btw - never had any humanities or lit lesson in my last 2 years of school)</p>
<p>A more important factor in my decision to cancel or not: would the poor Jan 2008 Lit score undermine my 800 in CR in Oct 2007? After all, I took Lit just very recently, three months, after CR, and my CR history isn't very consistent either. They are somewhat correlated, I feel, since they require similar skills.</p>
<p>Anyone, please help! I'm having a terrible headache about this. thanks!</p>
<p>I wouldn't cancel the score...that shows up on your score report too. If your first one is 650-700, and you score 750+ on another one, that'll still look good and they'll figure out you took it more seriously the second time. If you cancel a score because it won't be perfect enough, they're going to think you're too much of a perfectionist!</p>
<p>This is one of those situations in which I don't really think it matters much which road you take. :) Either choice would be fine.</p>
<p>Dino09, you're right that canceling a score might look silly if the colleges knew why it was canceled...but they'll probably just assume the OP got sick. </p>
<p>Screwitlah, I don't think a low score will undermine the positive results of a high score later. </p>
<p>Neither a cancellation nor a low score is going to do you damage as long as you get a high score in the future. So do whatever will help you relax; that's my best advice.</p>