<p>I took SAT I twice.
for all sections, I did better on the first SAT than the second one. =(
Well, I think i'm going to take it again... (just one more time!)
Does anybody know HOW Harvard looks at the SAT scores?
Do they superscore or take best scores from single test?</p>
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<p>The short answer is NO. You should be wary of certain obsessive if not always honest personalities on College Confidential who leap forth with overconfident answers to these questions, speaking as though aware of Harvard's internal operations, Princeton's internal operations, and so on. For example, such people will assert confidently that Harvard or other top university doesn't care about the difference between a 750 and an 800 on the subtests of the SAT, or that SAT scores hardly matter once the scores pass a basic threshold, or that information from the score report other than the highest ("super") scores is never used (or is censored out!) in admission. In fact, Harvard and the other schools have never said those things, nor has any selective private university gone into detail about how it handles SAT and how it values the scores.</p>
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<p>For certain purposes in admissions -- at Harvard this includes computing an Academic Index for athletes -- one number called "SAT I" is called for as an input to a formula or to fill out a particular form. In other words, a single number is needed to summarize the entire SAT-I score report. Harvard's stated policy, like that of most other schools, is to calculate this number as the superscore (section-by-section highest score).</p>
<p>Like most other schools, Harvard has not commented on whether it uses (always, sometimes, or potentially) additional information from the score report, such as when the scores were attained, the number of sittings, the specific pattern of scores, the range of scores on each subtest, or the combination of any of those things with information in other parts of the application.</p>
<p>thank you so much for detailed answer =)</p>