Can you retake the SAT too many times?

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<p>Just wanted to tell you guys that I registered to take the test a final time in December.<br>
2collegewego asked where I was looking into. Here’s my list;</p>

<p>SUNY Albany
SUNY Binghamton
City College
Fordham
U of Chicago
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
UVA
UNC: Chapel Hill
Washinton University in St. Louis </p>

<p>I looked into some liberal arts schools but I quickly realized that many don’t offer merit aid. Do you have any suggestions? I can still rework my list…</p>

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<p>BUMP! I got my scores back from the December administration and got a 2150! (M: 700, CR: 740, WR: 710) THANK YOU FOR THE HELP!</p>

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<p>That’s awesome!
Best of luck with the Apps!</p>

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<p>That’s really great!. Your overall improvement is remarkable.</p>

<p>I don’t have any insight on your college choices, just wishing you good luck in the admissions process. Looks like you’ve got some good safeties just in case.</p>

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<p>So–did you do any prep or did the moon, sun and stars align?</p>

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<p>Awesome! Good luck!</p>

<p>*I looked into some liberal arts schools but I quickly realized that many don’t offer merit aid. Do you have any suggestions? I can still rework my list… *</p>

<p>Are you in-state for New York? Are those your financial safeties? Won’t they give you great merit?</p>

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<p>Top LACs (Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst) have excellent need based aid, and I am pretty sure you will qualify for it.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m instate in New York.
ellemenope; I did as many official practice tests as I could (I only had one blue book test left so I used the official practice tests that collegeboard.com provides) and when I ran out of those I used the ones from the Princeton Review Book. After analyzing my score report form the Oct test I realized that what killed me in CR was vocab (I only got 2 reading comprehension questions wrong), so I did every Vocab set in the Barrons CR workbook.
For the writing portion, I read this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html&lt;/a&gt; and it helped me bump my writing score from an 8 to an 11…</p>