<p>This past June SAT was my 3rd time taking the test,
and I was just wondering what colleges (perhaps stanford
and northwestern) would think when they saw my three
scores.</p>
<p>1st time (January): Cr: 690 M: 790 W:760 for a total of 2240
2nd time (March): Cr: 690 M: 760 W: 780 for a total of 2230
3rd time (June): Cr: 800 M: 780 W:680 for a total of 2260</p>
<p>so highest single-sitting would be 2260, but the superscore would
be 2370. would they note the 100 point drop in writing since the
last time and also the 110 point rise in critical reading? </p>
<p>Also, I've taken the SAT before in 8th grade as part of the midwest
talent thing, and i actually pulled off an 800 on the math section,
so i really don't know what's going on there. but i've also already
gotten an 800 on the sat subject math 2 and i've qualified for the
AIME twice with scores of 5 both times. i.e. will admissions
care that i didn't manage to pull a perfect on the math 1?</p>
<p>Congratulations on your awesome scores! I wish my CR scores would jump like that…</p>
<p>A score of 800 on the math section in the SAT Reasoning is either due to leet skillage or plain luck…if you look at teh curve, even one question wrong often means a 790 instead of 800. </p>
<p>For the math1/2 subject tests, anything above 750 is good…if you retake a bunch of times colleges will think that you are some standardized test freak that goes around studying and has no life. As long as you did reasonable you have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>For teh 100 and 110 point changes in the different sections of the SAT Reasoning, I do not think that it will matter…after all whats the point of doing superscoring you thin people cheat everytime they have big fluctuations? colleges will probably just assume that you studied.</p>
<p>I suspect that CB calibrates the difficulty of the three sections throughout the year to make the annual statistics of the test takers fit a normal distribution. In the past few tests, more people probably scored higher on the writing section, so they needed more lower scores.</p>
<p>ditto “if you retake a bunch of times colleges will think that you are some standardized test freak that goes around studying and has no life.”</p>
<p>You are fine; colleges don’t parse the numbers that closely, but look at the whole application. Be an interesting person, and they will want you to join them for four years. You are good - don’t worry.</p>
<p>well, i had a copy of the BB, but it was already used before, so i didn’t take those tests. instead i used a copy of barron’s reading workbook and the sparknote’s reading workbook and i did a few of those practice tests in the two weeks before and just went for it. but honestly, i’m surprised myself. also, will the writing drop be looked down upon too greatly?</p>