<p>I've browsed the internet and haven't discovered anything about Ivies superscoring the SATs. PROOF?</p>
<p>what do you mean by superscoring?</p>
<p>taking the best score from each SAT test in each section after multiple sittings</p>
<p>This is a common practice not just among the Ivy League colleges but pretty much every where. I've never heard it called "superscoring" though. Since you wanted "proof", here some links:</p>
<p>Harvard:
<a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/faq/admissions/tests/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/faq/admissions/tests/index.html</a>
(Then click on the appropriate FAQ)</p>
<p>Yale:
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html#2%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html#2</a></p>
<p>Princeton:
<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/brief/22.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/brief/22.htm</a>
(Scroll down to "How do admissions officers use standardized tests results?")</p>
<p>All of these were found in the FAQ section of each website.</p>
<p>^ The Harvard and Princeton policies are ambiguous.</p>
<p>Yes, Ivies select the highest score from each section for the SAT, as do a good many colleges. Fewer colleges do it for the ACT subscores, but that's slowly becoming more common.</p>
<p>warbler: do you know which colleges do this? I haven't been able to find any!</p>
<p>Stanford, Cornell, Bryn Mawr, Case Western, JHU, Reed, Tufts, Union, Wittenberg, Boston College, U Richmond, Yale, Brandeis, Colgate, Mt. Holyoke, Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, Brown, Franklin & Marshall, U Penn, and Wesleyan do...there's probably others. Email your colleges if it's not stated on their websites.</p>
<p>i had a feeling that many privates take the best score from each section and many publics take the best one-sitting score. just a hunch.</p>
<p>nearly every private college takes the best test scores regardless of sitting, since it is their best interest to do so (boosts ratings).</p>