<p>....not to make me take the Dec SAT?
I currently have 2180, 2200: super score: 2230
She wants a higher score, which I can kinda understand.
But the problem is not that.</p>
<p>I'm not going to study for the Dec SAT, and I'll only take Jan SAT if I don't get into my early decision.
The reason she wants me to take Dec SAT is since we already registered for it before my Oct SAT result came out, I should take it for practice (I mean ***) and just cancel the test.
I'm telling her that it's a waste of saturday morning and afternoon. But she won't listen.</p>
<p>You must be an asian. No Offense. :)</p>
<p>Where does she want you to go to school? </p>
<p>Get her on-line. I’ll talk to her.</p>
<p>You can always move it to another test date, so move your December test date to the January one, and save yourself a bit of money in the process.</p>
<p>Oh, Serafina…good idea.</p>
<p>But, OP…EVERY little bit helps if you’re shooting for top 20 schools. But, you also don’t want to show that you took it a zillion times (to schools that don’t allow score choice). I don’t know, at this point, that “practice” is going to help you. And there is no need to study, you’ve “practiced” twice already.</p>
<p>However, when my daughter took her SAT as a Junior (we knew she’d have SO many availability conflicts if she waited until the next day), her scores were similar to yours (2210). Did you look at your score report? Hers told her that, on average, a person who got each individual section’s score that she got…and who retook the test as a senior…went DOWN in score. A few people went up but most went down. There is a point after which it’s just not productive. You’re sick of it, you haven’t studied that math in awhile, etc. </p>
<p>HOWEVER…you can also think of it as 4 hours x 4 tests = 16 hours to POSSIBLY get into a better school and/or get a scholarship if you can nudge it up. You see it at CC a lot. Kids DO improve, sometimes by the hundreds. </p>
<p>I WISH my D would take it again this Dec…just to see. But she’s “DONE”. I can’t blame her. She only took it once, but had to spend a lot of Saturdays on SAT IIs and has VERY few Saturdays anyway. So she opted to sit the ACT standby last June and did a great job on that. So I’m not arguing. Your college “career” is a VERY important building block for your future. But…you know…it’s an aptitude test. You can already see that by your two same-scored tests. It is what it is. Frankly, the difference between a 2200 and a 2300 for tippy tip schools seems to be right on the breaking point line. So…consider it. What if you DO do so much better? You’ll be SO happy (ok, probably). I don’t know you.</p>
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<p>If your mom wants a higher score perhaps she should take the test.</p>