<p>Hi, i have a few questions for you smart people out there.</p>
<p>First, i will give u a list of all my SATI scores to give you some background:</p>
<p>October - 2210 (M: 780, W: 740, CR: 690)
December - 2280 (M: 780, W: 730, CR: 770)
January - 2200 (M: 670, W: 800, CR: 730)</p>
<p>SUPERSCORE: 2350 (M: 780, W: 800, CR: 770)</p>
<p>I have two questions:</p>
<li><p>For UCs, they will take the highest sitting score, right? So they’ll take 2280?
BUT, since i scored lower on a test AFTER my 2280 (a 2200) will that affect what they think of me? In other words, will they think i got dumber or that my latest score voided my 2280?</p></li>
<li><p>For Ivies, they superscore it, meaning they will take 2350 right? But if they look closely, they will also see that my score actually dropped from December to January. Will this affect their decision in any way? Or will they just draw the highest superscore regardless of how well a student does progressively on the SAT?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for your time
(Please help as im really confused right now)</p>
<p>There's no way any school would void your best score because it wasn't your most recent score. There has been a lot of debate on CC as to whether or not colleges care how the superscore has been achieved or not. In the extreme cases (5 attempts, huge variances) it may matter, but almost everyone agrees (if tokenadult finds his way to this tread he'll back me up) in non-extreme cases, it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>if you took it three times and superscored it, thats absolutely normal to an ivy. my dad is on the admissions committee at a certain ivy in boston (cough), and although yes they will see all three of your scores, they are really primarily concerned with the superscore, unless 1. you took the sat a million times or 2. you clearly only focused on one section each time, leading to highly erratic scores. in your case, i wouldn't worry at all. congrats.</p>
<p>thank you both for your replies</p>
<p>@Godfatherbob
Would you mind posting a link to the debates you speak of? Maybe a link to a thread about how Ivies consider superscore in relation to one sitting scores?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Does anyone else have anything to say??</p>