<p>Hey guys, I'm new to the forum but I've been lurking for a while haha.. Anyways today on math level 2 I'm almost positive I scored between a 750-800.. I was getting 800s on all my practice tests (even got a couple in barrons) but I felt sick this morning, but decided to bite the bullet and take the test anyway. I left like 5 blank, so I can actually get an 800, but I could have easily made stupid mistakes in the condition I was in.</p>
<p>I'm a soph so I can always retake in the fall. The question is, will two scores of a 770 and an 800 hurt me in any way for ivies who don't take score choice. Or will they disregard the slightly lower one? I just don't wanna cancel a score that has a decent chance of being 800 :/, but if a short of perfect one will hurt me for ivies, then it might be worth it.</p>
<p>1) Many colleges do not accept score choice in order to keep things fair between rich and not-so-rich applicants </p>
<p>2) You really need to take a deep breath, my friend. No, do not cancel your score–that’s psychotic. Instead, wait to see what you get back, and go from there. You have absolutely no idea what you got, and it makes 0 sense to kill yourself with stress trying to study for yet another round of testing when you could have gotten a perfectly good score in the first place.</p>
<p>I will tell you that many people would kill for a 770, and it’s an awesome score, even in the context of Ivy admissions. You do NOT need an 800. In fact, re-taking a 770 will more than likely be a turn-off to schools, as it makes you look like one of “those” kids–a score-obsessed gunner. </p>
<p>This is coming from personal experience, mind you. I was considering re-taking my subject tests, but decided against it, spending my time with friends, studying for school, etc. It made my last years of high school so much less stressful, and I was a better interviewee and candidate for it.</p>
<p>FYI–even with sub-800s on my SATs, I made it into two ivies, Georgetown, UMD Honors, and Middlebury, so you’ll be fine ;)</p>
<p>@Stanford In the end it’s your choice what to send, but if a school requesting everything catches you not sending everything, your whole application can get trashed.</p>
<p>@HatersGonnaHate so would Stanford or Harvard (or other schools on their level) judge me by a Physics SAT II that I took in freshman year that is ~750?</p>
<p>I don’t understand the question… is that your only take of the Physics SAT? Generally, schools will look at the highest score that you send in (and they will say it on their website; if you’re confused, email them), so if you’ve retaken it for a higher (or lower) score, they’ll try to look at the best one. </p>
<p>But please, don’t tell me that you don’t want them to see a 750…you guys need to have a serious talk with a guidance counselor about these perfection issues. A 750 is a great score–be happy.</p>
<p>@mada34 I just took the test today. I think I did pretty well, but I usually make careless errors, so I’m unsure of how I did. It could be a 710 for all I know.
My siblings are at Stanford/Princeton and got 800s on all their SAT IIs so my view is kind of warped I guess.</p>
<p>oh please, you’re so much more than test scores. canceling a 770…really? that’s just silly. there is no difference between a 770 and 800 (the “scoring range” established by collegeboard for 770 is about 740-800) so in no way are you going to lose the favor of college admissions at all with a 770.
Plus, you’re assuming you got a couple wrong. You’re still in the running for 780-800, but even if you weren’t, I’d say anything above 750, or even ~ 720, would have no impact on your application. You don’t have to get perfect scores to get into any college, and perfect scores are not going to put you over the top over someone with almost perfect (i.e. 800, 800, 760, 740) scores. I personally think that test scores are a “preliminary factor” to weed out some of the many applicants; if your scores are TOO low, and you aren’t like godly at some extracurricular activity (e.g. sports, founded your own business), you probably can’t get in, but over a certain point, colleges won’t use test scores as a “tiebreak” to decide who gets in. This “point” for the most selective colleges is around 2350 on SAT I and 750 on subject tests. They even state that “we are used to seeing subject test scores on the student’s highest test in the mid-upper 700s”.</p>
<p>Truthfully, if you have SAT II scores over 700, even if the percentiles are rather low as in the case of Math II, colleges will be fine with it.</p>
<p>Schools like Stanford, Harvard, and the other ivies or elite schools will not look down upon any score over 700. In fact, like other posters have said, they might be turned off by the fact that you even retake in order to get a higher score.</p>
<p>While improvement is nice, one must consider whether that improvement is “necessary.” “Do those 100 points really mean anything?” is what I’m trying to get at.</p>
<p>You would be much better off spending your time with friends, dedicating your time to activities you love, or improving other academic areas.</p>
<p>Bottom line, any score above a 700 will not hurt you whatsoever. It won’t ever come down to whether you have a 750 or a 760, or even a 750 versus an 800.</p>
<p>Dont cancel. I got a 780 and was thinking about cancellIng but its stupid. The score range for math2 for my test was like 770-800 so if a person got a 770 on one test date colleges would know they could easily get a 800 te next test date. The score range is sent with your scores. Youll look and come
off like a nerd so dont retake a 770 lol</p>
<p>Trust me i literally just went through this myself lol</p>