<p>My daughter came to usa nearly two years ago. in Oct test she got 2200 for SAT, (reading750 math800 writing 650). that is her first time took SAT. she want to go to top universities. she is in 11 grade now, we can not decide whether she need retake SAT or not. </p>
<p>need suggestion. thanks.</p>
<p>if she only took it once she will mostly likely improve her score on a second taking</p>
<p>2200 is a good score, but it would be nice if she could get the writing up. a 1550 Math+Reading is fantastic, but with some studying the writing could go up, so I see no harm in doing that. Writing is a learnable section, easier to improve on than CR or math.</p>
<p>yea, but let her only retake it if she is deff. sure she can get it up. i've heard of a few instances where ppl had around 2200+ and then retook it, and did not get even 2000, got somewhere in 1790-1950) and then the college rejected them since they didnt believe that their first score was valid b/c of the large gap and also the huge decrease</p>
<p>LuckMC11 is that a true story? Sounds kind of sketch that a college would reject them after their second poor score.</p>
<p>I don't know if thats a verifiable story (not to say that what you said didn't occur) but how could you determine that the second testing was the sole reason why the college rejected them. </p>
<p>Also, admission officers typically don't see how often you took the SAT, unless they seek out a copy of the score report (unlikely). The way it works is the highest scores for each section are put on a data sheet with all kinds of other numerical information to make the process easier and more efficient.</p>
<p>I took SATs as a soph, got 690 CR 730 M 800 W...decided to retake in 11th and got 800s on both CR and M...(my W went down but that didn't really matter)...if she's a decent student I doubt she'll have to worry about such a huge drop...plus CB lets you cancel scores so if she is anxious about having done poorly she can always use that option...take some practice tests and see what range she's falling in...but my advice would be to go for it.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Since she has only taken it once, I also suggest that she retake, hopefully acheiving at least a 700 on the writing portion. I will respectfully disagree a bit with the previous poster who said that the writing is the easiest to study for--at a certain point, if you are not a grammar natural, you are not going to get only one or two wrong on the multiple choice, and even a pretty good essay will not pull you up to a really high writing score. For a point of reference, I took it three times, and each time I got 3 to 4 wrong on the multiple choice and I got 10/10/9 on the essay. This corresponds to 710/710/700. Good luck to your daughter.</p>
<p>Just don't send the 2nd score if it is lower.
So when she's filling out the stuff during the test, just don't send it to any colleges...although it will cost some money to send it later, better send it with some cash than to send it and be rejected (if that's possible)</p>
<p>advantagious</p>
<p>that is really bad curve. 3-4 wrong and 9-10 on essay only gave you 700-710? are you sure? some one who took dec 2005 sat got 9 wrong with 11 on essay and got 740. Do you think essay score make that much difference?</p>
<p>I got 4 wrong, 9 essay, and recieved a 700, October 2006. This is not a bad curve; however, I got 7 wrong on CR and got a 710, which is incredible.</p>
<p>christalena2 is WRONG. at the time when you take the test u do not have to report your scores to the colleges this part of her advise is correct,however when you are ready to release yours scores all tests will be released you will not have the choice to withhold any scores. even if you want to release SATII scores the board will also release your SAT scores along with it.</p>