<p>In March I scored 770 writing. If I retake test in June to bring up math and reading, but get a lower SAT Writing Score BUT a higher total score (M + CR + WR) in June, will Harvard look at the 770 or the lower score?</p>
<p>someone please help me with this question</p>
<p>I think Harvard's policy now is not to mix sections from different testing dates...
so the best thing I can suggest is try to do just as well in June.
that's all I really know</p>
<p>I thought Harvard's policy has always been to give students the benefit of their best SECTION score from each section of the SAT Reading Test. </p>
<p>Does anyone have a link to a Harvard Web site page that speaks to this issue?</p>
<p>That really stinks- I really do not think I can pull above 770 writing in June...:(</p>
<p>I hope and pray that Harvard's new policy of just one sitting is not true.</p>
<p>By composite you mean the best of each subject regardless of whether or not you took them at different sittings?</p>
<p>what about other ivies, are they the same way, and someone please confirm what harvards new policy with my situation is</p>
<p>Look at the applications. And who cares about the ivies, Stanford is better than most of em.</p>
<p>US News ranks Stanford as better than Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell but worse than Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Penn.</p>
<p>For one, I know that Penn lets you mix and match.</p>
<p>Most schools do take the best individual section, but I think someone posted in a different thread that Harvard's policy is different for class of 2010. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll be sure to ask the Harvard rep when I go to a presentation on Monday.</p>
<p>why do you want to go to Harvard? im convinced its not even a place. its just a name.</p>
<p>Why I want to go to Harvard:
Harvard rocks my world!</p>
<p>Interesting proposition...</p>
<p>Anonymous, I'm not sure why you bother posting in the Harvard thread if everytime someone asks a question you simply reply about how much Ivy league schools suck... you're not being any help whatsoever.</p>
<p>HAHA actually im going to princeton. and im just fooling around.</p>
<p>Harvard adcoms stated clearly in the information session last month that they would accept any combination of sections from both old and new SATs. Since they don't know what to expect from the new test, they are taking a liberal wait and see policy. Of course, you are still competing against all the other applicants, so give yourself the best chance.</p>
<p>I listened for the answer to this question at tonight's Harvard info session in my town. Harvard always gives you the benefit of the best score you received on each SAT II test, and on each section of the SAT I.</p>
<p>that's good, token adult!
so you went to the presentation tonight in Dallas?
I'm going tomorrow in Ft. Worth and I hope it's at least not a waste of an hour and a half.</p>
<p>why would you retake a 770?</p>
<p>The information session I attended was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here's an information question for you: does Harvard's slide show depict snow scenes in southern cities, or do they save the photos of snow for Minnesota audiences. Even Duke, which has a wimpy amount of snow each year, showed a snowman in yesterday's slide show at the joint information session.</p>