<p>I took the SAT in my freshman and sophomore years, and my GC actually insisted that I retake it even though I had a great score (2260 - and, yes, my score went down when I retook it). I was really annoyed.</p>
<p>My point is that (I would assume) colleges want to see recent scores. As someone else mentioned, your sophomore year score is pretty old and admissions committees will certainly take that into account. It's not as if you've taken it four times in a row as often as possible.</p>
<p>Regarding #1: Depends when you took it.</p>
<p>4 in a row test dates == not good</p>
<p>4 with 2 spread out much earlier == okay</p>
<p>In a number of superscoring schools your original score report may
not even be in front of the admittance officer- probably a recompiled
list of scores with your highest superscore prominen?</p>
<p>If I were an adcom, I would consider anything taken before junior year to essentially be a practice test.</p>
<p>I've just registered with this forum but I have been watching this thread for a couple days. I took the SAT 4 times over high school (2 in one year), plus once back in 7th grade randomly. I didn't even increase my score that much over the course of all those tests. It did not have any affect on my admissions.</p>
<p>4 does look bad people. It clearly states in Harvard's site that they do not recommend taking it more than twice, let alone more than three times. Although I don't think taking it in your sophomore year would count, so maybe it doesn't look that bad in your case.</p>
<p>Maybe that was the case then. I did get into Harvard.</p>
<p>Is that really the case? Colleges do not look at a sophomore SAT score? It does appear on the score report. In contrast SATs taken in 7th or 8th grade do not appear.</p>
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<p>That's not what it says on Harvard's site. Read more carefully. Check the Harvard viewbook (Google it) for what Harvard says it does about test scores. The viewbook is carefully revised every year, and reflects current Harvard policy.</p>
<p>oh really!!!!!!so excited to hear that!!!</p>