Do Ivy League schools all only take your highest scores for the SAT and ACT?

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No. If a college super-scores, then it considers the highest scores of each section; you may still have to submit all your scores. Cornell does not accept score choice, but it super-scores I think. This means that you don’t really lose out on the fact that you can’t pick which scores to send: the school will consider only your highest scores anyway (some people argue that there is still some bias involved in sorting out scores). It is really only bad when a school neither accepts score choice nor super-scores, in which case low scores hurt you. Realistically, all these differing policies shouldn’t worry you. Just do as well as possible every time you take the SAT, and you’ll be set. Don’t think you have to score really high your first time either. Most applicants of top schools don’t score their highest their first time around. But don’t take it 5 times either.</p>