<p>the first time I took the SAT (spring junior year), i got a 2140. i retook it this fall and got a 2010 (ouch). i got a much lower math score (520 compared to 600) and a lower writing score (750 compared to 800). my reading score (740) was eerily the same. </p>
<p>so my question is: will they give any consideration to my retake of the SAT or will they truly only consider the first time I took it? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>i have the same question, cuz i went down 20 pts this december =[</p>
<p>Guys, I don’t think it should matter. Yale does say that it looks at your best scores. Maybe you both had a bad day the second time round. It happens :)</p>
<p>^yeah i hope they understand that. i definitely must have had a bad day the second time. i dunno, i felt way more anxious than i did the first time and all, so yeah, i hope they overlook it completely.</p>
<p>In Pigs’ case, I think for the most part it shows that your first score is pretty representative of your average performance. They’ll know you neither got particularly lucky or unlucky on either try. It just eliminates some of the guesswork they would otherwise have to do in figuring out if your first take was a good, average, or bad day.</p>
<p>As for whitecadillac, they’ll probably surmise that you studied some for your first take and barely at all for you retake. That’s no bonus, but I don’t think it’s a fatal mistake either.</p>
<p>^that’s the weird thing, i didn’t study at all before i took it the first time but then i studied my butt off for 3 weeks before retaking…:(</p>
<p>well, they won’t know that. anyway, as everyone said, they will look at your highest score. it won’t make a big difference.</p>
<p>The same thing happened to me! I took the SAT in January '09 and got a 2190 (790 M, 710 CR, 690 W). Wanting to break 700 in Writing, I took it again in May '09 and got a 2080 (710 M, 680 CR, 690 W). Such an ■■■ moment, everything went down and my Writing score stayed exactly the same, right down to the multiple choice and essay scores.</p>
<p>[I took the SAT for the third time in October and finally broke out of my 690 writing streak, but my CR score crashed and burned.]</p>
<p>Pretty much all schools look at your highest score. Most schools superscore, some really selective schools (like Yale) only look at your highest score from one sitting. Either way, you’re fine. Don’t worry :).</p>
<p>^ Yale doesn’t particularily only look at your highest single sitting. They just want all your scores, and they consider your performances over all of them. I’d assume, in a sense, it’s like superscoring. They don’t list specific practices and remains somwhat vague on the website, as they know that their pool is extremely competitive and ranging, as are their admits.</p>
<p>Yale actually asks for all of your scores meeeesh</p>