<p>You shouldn’t plan on transferring, especially to highly selective schools. Make the most of where you are so you’re happy if transferring doesn’t work out. </p>
<p>Also, you won’t be able to raise your score to a near 2400 from a 1700 unless there was some dramatic reason that caused the 1700 in the first place. With huge amounts of work you can maybe raise your score to something around 2000, but anyway colleges generally frown on takin the SAT in college unless you’re a CC student. </p>
<p>Soph your SATs will matter about the same amount as freshman year. Junior some schools don’t care at all (like the UC’s), some consider a lot less but still consider them (pretty much most highly selective colleges), and some weigh at the same level. It all depends.</p>