<p>I've heard many ivies, such as Upenn and Yale, takes the best SAT Scores from each section. Does this apply no matter how many times you've taken it? In my case, I've taken it 4 times... and each time I did good in one section and then bad in the other 2. Will this look erratic and/or bad or do they just see your best 3 scores from each section?</p>
<p>In my case I got:</p>
<p>First Time:
770 CR
700 M
660 W</p>
<p>Second:
670 CR
740 M
700 W</p>
<p>Third:
720 CR
800 M
700 W</p>
<p>Fourth:
720 CR
710 M
710 W</p>
<p>I've heard that many times it's a college student or secretary that inputs the best scores from each section so the adcoms do not even see your other scores, is this true? My scores look like they are all over the place but I just tried to focus on one subject each time I took the test like CR the first time, Writing the Second time, math the third time, and then writing the fourth time(writing didn't work out lol...)</p>
<p>From what I heard, in some places the clerical staff input the best scores and how many times the SAT was taken. Four times may raise a red flag.</p>
<p>yes, it's true, some colleges take your highest score for each section from each sitting and calculate your score that way. however, not all schools are like that, so definitely be careful about where you're thinking of applying.</p>
<p>I tried to focus on each section for each test. That is why it fluctuates so much. I know colleges don't care what I did but will this hurt my chances at ivies?</p>
<p>i have to same exact question
I've heard that many times it's a college student or secretary that inputs the best scores from each section so the adcoms do not even see your other scores, is this true?
this part is most likely true because the decision committee really does not want to waste time on looking at so many scores and trying to eye-ball the highest scores from each individual sections. if thats what they do, they would be so dizzy by the end of the day.</p>
<p>janieiee, it is true that a lot of background work is done by either the secretarial staff or, more likely, the computer program if you apply online, to present your application in the format a particular ADCOM wants to read. This includes picking the highest scores (if that is what the school's policy is), listing the number of time test is taken or the dates, calculating unweighted GPA, assigning points to ECs based on some kind of rubric, quantifying recommendations, etc. This helps the ADCOMs to tentatively say ADMIT or DENY on a good number of applications. When they come down to a manageable number of apps to look at, the ADCOMs will take a more closer look at all the details.
For an example, at a University a staff told us that they really don't want to see more than the required number of recs. "Please don't send all that extra material, we can't really look at so much stuff!" Now this contradicts Hernandez's (Dartmouth?) advice to supply as much info as possible...</p>