For all the people asking about retaking 2100+...

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<p>This is from an admissions officer @ MIT.</p>

<p>"Let me tell you one more story that I often relay. I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and afterwards a student -- we'll call her Artemis -- comes up to me and tells me that she has a 760 on the Math SAT. As I was about to tell her that her score was just fine, she keeps talking, to inform me that she was going to take the test again, since "clearly" her score was "too low." I was like, "What?!?!" I "ordered" Artemis to not take the Math SAT again, and instead to have a picnic on that Saturday. Because to us, a 760 math is the same as any higher score she could receive on the retest."</p>

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<p>people seem to ask about this everyday.</p>

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<p>I don't buy it. Adcoms love 8--'s, they just don't want to admit it.</p>

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<p>Sure... Adcoms always give the politically, academically, socially, morally correct answer to these questions... It's not exactly what they are looking for though. However, 760 is very high...</p>

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<p>No, but the thing is with the same EC's, essays, GPA, etc...whether your SAT score is 750ish for all 3 sections or higher won't matter, if bob was rejected of careful evaluation who happened to have 2200, he won't suddenly get in if his SAT score was higher...it's not like the deciding factor once you reach a certain score percentile.</p>