How do colleges look at your SAT scores?

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<p>Do they look at each sitting seperately, or do they choose the best test scores out all all the SATs you take?</p>

<p>For example,</p>

<p>if your first sitting was a:</p>

<p>CR: 630
math: 800
writing: 740</p>

<p>and second was a:</p>

<p>CR: 690
math: 790
writing: 780</p>

<p>do they make your SAT score the best scores combined? So therefore a 690, 800, 780 which makes a 227? Or do they look at each SAT score seperately based on sitting and therefore my best would be a 226?</p>

<p>I'm just wondering how this works. If you were curious, my 2nd example was my first SAT score and my first example was my PSAT. I plan on retaking the SAT to raise my mediocre CR but I want to know how it is judged if I do well on CR but do badly on writing (the 12 essay brought my score up). If the information is important, my top schools are Duke and Northwestern.</p>

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<p>each school has its own policy- check the admissions websites to see what the individual school does with scores</p>