Do colleges really only care about the highest scores?

Test Preparation
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<p>I understand that all my scores will be sent and that colleges will base their decisions on my highest scores. At most colleges however, the admissions people will see all of my scores. I wonder if a bad score would lower their opinion of me even though I scored higher in another testing.</p>

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<p>colleges tend to look for reasons to accept you, not for reasons to reject you... they'll credit your best scores and not 'lower their opinion of you'.... unless you took the exam more than three times, then you come off as slightly obsessive, but if not, you're fine</p>

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<p>"colleges tend to look for reasons to accept you, not for reasons to reject you..."</p>

<p>Is this true at very selective colleges too?</p>

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<p>Anyone...?</p>

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<p>^ yeah, ditto</p>

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<p>I'm no college admissions expert... but it doesnt seem like colleges would look for reasons to accept you... think about it... they have thousands of very highly qualified candidates. They can only accept a select few. If they looked for reasons to accept them all... they wouldn't be able to get anywhere with decisions. Just the way it seems to me.</p>