<p>It's worth retaking. If he can get a perfect score, go for it. I would have retaken more if I could have (not any dates left) It could be that tiny thing in his application that puts him over the top and gets him in to the best college in the US.</p>
<p>i have to agree with j07. i wouldn't retake it. it just costs money and time. but if he is really into it and truly believes he can raise his score signifcantly, and he doesn't mind spending the money and using up a saturday, then sure. the day i took the sats for the first (and only) time, i decided i'd never take them again no matter what i got. it was just painful lol.</p>
<p>The woman who is going to interview me for Princeton said the figure was 40% admittance, so I think it's possible Princeton either isn't clear about it or discourages those figures from getting out since the Jian Li thing.</p>
<p>I completely agree with j07 and kraor (gosh, how unusual! ;)). Especially about the painful thing...I think after coming out of a 3 1/2- hour standardized test (or however long it was...it basically felt like a century to me) I would rather have endured severe physical pain than do it all over again a couple of months later.</p>
<p>CMA1, your son's scores are just fine (particularly if he is not interested in math/science/engineering) and definitely put him in Princeton's range. Once you reach that point, other factors take over and determine whether or not he will be admitted.</p>
<p>I don't think it's worth missing a debate tournament to retake the test. Your son's scores are already impressive enough, and a better writing score would only marginally improve his chances.</p>
<p>thanks everyone. I don't think he would get a perfect math score. The verbal sections are his strengths. He didn't take a review course, so maybe that would have helped with math. But in the end, he dislikes the math section like some people hate the CR section, which he finds easy. That's why he refused to take it before and miss a cross country meet. Now, it's forensics.</p>
<p>j07, that is funny about the similarities. By any chance did you attend the Humanities Symposium at Princeton as well? Good luck to you and everyone.</p>
<p>hey i'd love to have a 50% shot at princeton!!!</p>
<p>if debate tournaments where you live are run weekly, like where I am, then I don't think that missing one tournament is a big deal...
so if that is the reason not to take the SAT, then I would reconsider</p>
<p>however, I still think that a 2290 is a very nice score, so maybe it won't be worth the extra stress...=/</p>
<p>CMA1- No, I didn't attend that symposium. In fact, I have never been to Princeton. Or to New Jersey! Or, embarrassingly enough, north of the Mason-Dixon line. So that's kinda weird.</p>
<p>Pleonasm- we don't have debate tournaments every weekend. I would say that there is probably one decent one a month that my school actually attends, with a couple of small ones interspersed. I agree that missing a debate tournament isn't that big of a deal, but I'm going to stick by the fact that a 2290 is a pretty good score. Well, at least I hope it is.</p>
<p>Also, CMA1, Princeton requires 3 SAT Subject tests. I took mine in Math II and got a 740 (which is actually pretty low percentile-wise), but I was fine with it because I am horrible at math and have no interest in any career that involves it. Maybe your son can study for the Math IIC and score high in order to show his proficiency in math in a different venue, of sorts. Math II supposedly has a much higher curve.</p>
<p>actually when i took math 11 i got a lower score than math 1...which makes sense lol. but i was surprised because math 11 does curve....luckily i took it in december when it didnt really matter</p>
<p>I think that it depends how you are at math. I consider myself pretty good at math, but I make lots of stupid mistakes (I think I'm dislexic or have ADD or something) I got an 800 on 2c, but on the ACT my highest score was a 33 for math, I think it would be about the same for the SAT math, since there is little or no curve.</p>