<p>Hey, I've been hearing a lot about some colleges averaging your SAT scores (you take it 3 times, they take the average of those 3 for CR math writing etc). How do they exactly average them? Do I get to choose what scores I send to them or do they just have access to how many times i've taken the SAT and what I got on each one?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that; I thought most schools just looked at your highest scores.</p>
<p>Colleges do not average scores. Whatever you have been hearing a lot of is obviously unreliable infomation that you should be ignoring. Generally colleges do one of two things, depending on particular college, in determining admission when you have multiple SAT scores, either use that test with the highest composite, or use the highest subscores from the multiple tests.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a college averaging SATs. Most colleges superscore. Go to the websites of colleges that interest you. In the Admissions section, this topic is often raised in the freguently asked questions section.</p>
<p>As a general rule of thumb, colleges will give you the benefit of the doubt, so they will only consider your highest scores.</p>
<p>They dont average scores, just look at your highest section scores.</p>
<p>The only time I have heard that term used is for athletic recruiting when a coach at a selective school might say something like, “We want you to average 700 per section on the SAT.” So, they probably take an average in that situation, but only for athletics.</p>
<p>Actually, Wharton has been known to average SAT scores.
My neighbor is an admissions officer for UPenn and he argues strongly that all colleges should adopt the Score Averaging Policy (SAP) for the SAT.</p>