<p>My first SAT last year was a 2190 (730 CR, 710 W, 750 M). My second was a 2120 (670 CR, 740 W, 710 M). However, my super score went up by 30 points.</p>
<p>I'm applying to colleges like CMU, Princeton, UMich, Brown & Georgia Tech... should I use score choice for them and only send my first SAT? As someone intending to major in CS, I think my 710 in Math looks pretty bad, and my 60 point drop in CR doesn't really help either.</p>
<p>I know colleges say they superscore and I've seen multiple threads asking the same question I am, but just because they superscore that doesn't mean they don't consider my lower sections, right? I don't think they're mutually exclusive - can't colleges consider your superscore but also look at the drops in other sections and make their decision based on that?</p>
<p>And do you think a 30 point increase in arguably the least important section of the SAT (and therefore a 30 point increase in my superscore) is worth showing colleges that I dropped 100 points in Math & CR combined?</p>
<p>I know they do. But wouldn’t they also consider that the most important sections of my test dropped by 100 points? For schools like Princeton that get loads of applicants who always get 700+ on each section during their sittings, would it hurt my application in comparison to send one with a 670 CR?</p>
<p>Just send the 2190. Selective colleges prefer students who have 700+ in each section and you don’t want Princeton, Brown, CMU, UMich or Georgia Tech to see that 670 in CR. Even thought test scores are just one part of the application package, you don’t want to give someone on an Admissions Committee a reason to possibly question anything in your file.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is correct or not but I know a former Yale admissions counselor and when he first worked in the adm. department his job was to get the scores of an applicant and write down the top scores then the admissions counselor really only saw the highest scores. That is what he said but I don’t have first hand knowledge of how super scoring works.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how admissions departments determine what scores to use. Do they see all of the scores or really just the top ones?</p>
<p>The answer is going to vary from school to school. At some Admissions offices, I imagine they use computer algorithms to select the top section-scores and record them on an electronic score-card (so to speak) within your file, so an Admissions Officer does not see all the scores. On the other hand, at other colleges, such as Harvard, they still use paper files, in which case all SAT scores are available for review on the “reader sheets” for each applicant.</p>
<p>and it says that schools that chose “Highest Section Scores Across All Test Dates - Version 1” -
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<p>On the other hand, for schools that choose version 2 -
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<p>^ Does that mean that I should send both to schools that apply version 2 since they ONLY look at my highest sections? On the other hand for those that use version 1, should I send only my first?</p>