<p>@Beantowngirl I will definitely be disappointed if I don’t get in anywhere and I didn’t do my best to maximize my chances. </p>
<p>@Ixnaybob I also am not in school until the 25th. Since my summer classes ended (late August) I have spent most of my days hanging out with friends/watching cartoons/working on essay/studying math for fun.</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 “you don’t understand what education is about.”</p>
<p>You <em>REALLY</em> believe that by retaking a high SAT adcoms are going to make the judgement of an applicant (at the age of 17) that they “don’t understand what education is about”? Why in the world would they think that? Because someone who has a guidance counselor with 100+ students to help, attends a public school, and has two community college graduates (i.e. not ivy leaguers) as parents retook the SAT? You think that an adcom is going to immediately assume that the student is some sort of college robot and be vindictive enough to reject/make judgements of the character of the applicant based on one ill-concieved (if they even view it that way) idea? </p>
<p>“3rd sittings to break 2000 are considered acceptable. 4th and more are very much frowned upon.”</p>
<p>How is this situation any different? Because the consensus on college confidential is that above a 2300 is the same in the eyes of adcoms? I will have taken the SAT a total of two times (not counting CTY/9th grade) after this October. </p>
<p>I honestly can’t understand your reasoning here, other than your appeal to the consensus of less than about 10 posters on college confidential.</p>
<p>In the words of Thoreau, “Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”</p>
<p>Here are the facts (from what I can tell):</p>
<p>1) All colleges I am applying to (at least the selective ones) only take your best scores from each sub section into consideration. (I have read this on their websites). As in, the computer program that compiles the data for an applicant ONLY displays the applicants best scores in each section.
2) There is NO evidence that someone with a 2400 (or something close like 2380) is less desirable than someone with a score less than 2300.</p>
<p>Therefore, I cannot see how retaking would decrease my chances.</p>
<p>Yes, most of the “experienced” adults here have recommended against it. But at the end of the day, until I have concrete evidence, I will not be bullied into the common belief if it is an erroneous/unsupported one. As trite as it may sound:</p>
<p>The mass opinion is unimportant; only truth matters.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way, right up above (^) is what education is about.</p>