<p>Well, im just had a phone call with my english tutor and i told him that i got a 2160 after the 4th trial and he said i shouldn't do SAT anymore since good colleges like Harvard and so on will look at the number of trials and might not accept me. Is that true? If it is, do you think i shouldn't take the coming Jan SAT or what? i'm very mixed up. any help is appreciated :)</p>
<p>5 times is okay though ? Please tell me yes or my hopes for an ivy will be crushed :P</p>
<p>Ohh and thanks for the reply :)</p>
<p>Harvard accepts score choice you only have to send you highest score.</p>
<p>I read once in some college’s website (I think it was Yale’s or Stanford’s, not sure) that after a certain extent (ie 3 times), the college is more interested in the student’s character/extracurricular activities/GPA/etc than the SAT and would rather see them doing something productive on a Saturday morning. I mean, have you shown significant improvement over your 4 testing dates, or has it been roughly the same scores all throughout? If so, you should consider stopping, as your scores have probably plateaued and are as good as they’re going to get.</p>
<p>No. The only way for colleges to know how many times you took the test is to see the dates of all the scores you sent. Considering Harvard uses score choice they will only see the # of test dates from scores you sent them. I myself took the SAT 4 times but only sent 2 scores to most colleges. Seriously though…STOP taking the SAT. Five times is so much overkill. You have better things to be doing. If you’ve taken it 4 times and still haven’t gotten the score you wanted…god doesn’t want you to have that score.</p>
<p>Which Ivies? </p>
<p>For example, Columbia will see you took it 5 times, and that might raise some eyebrows.</p>
<p>However, Harvard will see only your top score, so you will be fine.</p>
<p>2160 is good… now go play some xbox</p>
<p>^LOL, my advice spend as much time ECs as possible. If you have stellar ECs and an ok SAT I think you should be alright.</p>