<p>Well, i am currently a rising sophomore and I made a big mistake in my freshman year. My parents made me take the SAT in december of 9th grade, and I didn't study at all and ended up with a 1900. I didn't know that this was a big mistake until about now lol. i took about 3 practice SAT's and received around a 2200 on all of them without studying. I will be studying for the SAT's this summer. Since I still have about 2 years I should be able to raise it to about a 2300. Unforunately, that 1900 is still on my record. I want to go to MIT and have good EC's, good GPA, and I know that I can increase my SAT score with a little work. I have a true passion for math and science and have already started developing some nice EC's in these categories. My three passions are math, science, and music and I have started doing research with a professor, started studying for math contests, and have already won a few state awards for the alto saxophone. You don't have to tell me whether I am on the right track for MIT or anything. All I need to know is that will my future SAT score (hopefully 2300, definitely 2200+ since I can already score in that range towards end of freshman year) cover up that terrible 1900? Thank you soo much!</p>
<p>I believe that MIT only looks at your highest scores in each category, though I may be wrong.</p>
<p>wow thanks. Oh and I took a practice PSAT last week and received a 222 if that helps any.</p>
<p>You do not need to worry at all. Although you do have to send your entire score report to MIT, there is only room on the app itself for your highest subscores over multiple sittings. Besides, 1900 means you averaged >600 on each section; quite good considering you took the test as a freshman! (I doubt I could have scored a 1900 as a freshman.) The first time I took the SAT, I scored 640 on the math section. A year later, I studied and brought that up to 770. I got into Caltech. If the school says that only your highest scores count, <em>they mean it.</em></p>
<p>PCB is correct and a look at the</a> Admissions website confirms that MIT will look at your highest standardized test scores.
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While we do require the SAT Reasoning Test or ACT Plus Writing, we realize that some of you may also have taken older versions of these tests. In such circumstances, we will consider scores from each section of both the older and newer versions of the tests and use the highest score achieved in each section for our evaluation. This is also the case if you have taken the SAT Reasoning Test or ACT Plus Writing more than once.<a href="Emphasis%20mine.">/quote</a></p>
<p>Thanks every1!</p>
<p>You should be fine! This is in 9th grade.. MIT won't care.</p>
<p>Truly the old score won't matter. Indeed, that is quite a respectable 9th grade score.</p>
<p>What does scare me a little bit is the whole ethos conjured up by "My parents made me take the SAT in december of 9th grade."</p>
<p>If your parents are putting that much pressure on you, that is a concern. Admissions to MIT (and other top schools) are highly competitive and sometimes hard to predict. If you don't get in somewhere, that is unfortunate but not the end of the world. If that is a huge blow to your parents, then it is much, much worse.</p>
<p>If you do get into MIT and choose to go there, then competition only gets harder. I have met many students who got straight A's in high school and expected to replicate that at MIT. Most of them were surprised. If your parents have unrealistic expectations, that can be a real challenge.</p>
<p>Obviously, you don't get to pick your parents, nor can you necessarily change their attitudes. That your parents want the best for you, and want you to excel is great. That they increase the pressure on you unneccessarily is not.</p>
<p>Good luck with your application,
-Mikalye</p>
<p>Don't worry. I was in a similar boat. I took the SAT in 9th grade (my parents wanted to see how I stood), in 10th grade (for admission to a boarding school), in 11th grade, and then once again in 12th grade.</p>
<p>Each time I promised myself I would study. I do know all the words beginning with 'A' in Kaplan, but after that :p. Even if you take the SAT more than 3 times, nobody cares. They start caring when you spend your Saturday's studying for the damn test instead of doing awesome stuff.</p>
<p>I got into MIT. Advice: Go spend Saturday's bulding/creating/programming <em>awesome stuff</em>. Spend Sunday's figuring out why the <em>awesome stuff</em> isn't working..., spend early Monday morning doing that homework thing.</p>
<p>sweet! thanks for the advice differential.</p>
<p>Perplexitudinous: Thank you! I really needed to hear that. I got a 680 in May, I have no idea what happened... Anyway, I'm sure it'll come up, so thanks for assuaging that niggling little fear in the back of my head!</p>
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Unforunately, that 1900 is still on my record.
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<p>There is nothing unfortunate about that. This is a routine experience, and all colleges I have asked about this treat the issue in the same way. For the long story, about why you don't have to worry about other colleges any more than you have to worry about MIT, see </p>
<p>I took it 3 times... one of which was in the 1900 range. don't sweat it bro</p>
<p>Why are you worried? I took the sat after freshman year also. Took it again junior year - naturally my score was much higher. They will see the date when you send your SAT report. Colleges in general use your highest scores.</p>
<p>Take note though: if you ever want to take the LSAT for law school some law schools will average your scores if you take it more then once.</p>
<p>yeah scores in middle school dont matter even tho they r still on ur record, so same for 9th</p>
<p>It's okay, I think....there's definitely nothing wrong with preparing for the SAT's early; I don't know why you would "officially" take it that early, but hey it doesn't hurt. </p>
<p>I made a stupid decision sophomore year and took the SAT II Latin after my 1st year in Latin and got a sub-600 score. I retook it a year later and got a much higher, so see? Oh wait, MIT rejected me. Um, I don't think your 9th grade SAT score matters anyway though :-)</p>
<p>Anyway, I think the point is admissions offices generally aren't cold-spirited, evil people nitpicking your application, trying to find some way to bring you down.</p>
<p>Taking the SAT early is quite common for competitive applicants because many magnet and prep schools require them for admission. CTD/CTY programs also require them. Nearly everyone scores significantly lower as a freshman compared to their score as a junior. Don't worry about it--you just look like you scored really well for a freshman.</p>
<p>If you take the SAT junior year, then that will be the score they look at the most. It is sort of frowned upon to take it again after junior year though--you look like you are obsessed with tests. I know someone who did well (1500+/1600) when she took it junior year and then got a perfect score senior year. I don't think the perfect score helped her.</p>
<p>ya judging from practice SAT scores that I took towards the end of my freshman year I already have around a 2100-2200. I still have 2 years so I should be able to bump it up quite a bit considering I haven't studied at all (only taken 2 practice tests, a PSAT and a SAT). PSAT was around 215ish.</p>
<p>listen! STOP WORRYING ABOUT SAT SCORES!!!
It's only a small portion of your application, just makes sure it's competitive!</p>
<p>work on doing the things you are passionate about,especially if you are applying to MIT...</p>