<p>CR: 730
M: 710
W: 800
T: 2240</p>
<p>My CR and M scores are relatively low in comparison to my writing score, which makes me wonder whether 1. I should retake it, because some schools do not look at Writing scores and the M and CR are more important and 2. whether my scores are truly good enough for a selective school.</p>
<p>Google the common data sets for each of the schools that you are considering, and you will see the GPA and the test scores for all who apply and all who are accepted. The GPA is as important or more important than SAT scores for many schools.</p>
<p>Those are very good scores, and are sufficient for admission to most colleges. They are good enough to get you into fairly selective schools if your grades are okay, and to get you into highly selective colleges if your grades are superb. Will they get you into Harvard or Stanford? Possibly, if you have other unique qualifications, but they reject thousands of students with higher test scores. Anything over 700 is good, by any objective standards,but a 710 in Math probably won’t get you into MIT or CalTech. An 800 in Writing, on the other hand, will serve you very nicely at almost every liberal arts college in the country. If you hope to enter a top-tier Engineering or Science program, you should probably take the SAT again, try the ACT, and also take the Subject Tests. Otherwise, it couldn’t hurt to take another round of tests, but those are very solid scores. Are you taking plenty of Honors/AP/IB classes? Every college I have visited lists academic rigor as the foremost criterion for admission. </p>
<p>No school will deny you because of your test scores. That’s for sure. However, as @woogzmama said, that 710 in Math will hurt you for MIT/Caltech.</p>
<p>If you’re applying for engineering, RETAKE. If you’re applying for ANYTHING else (english, foreign policy, public relations, Biology, Chemistry, pre med emphasis), you’re good. That score won’t keep you out of any school.</p>
<p>I personally don’t think scores are enough to push some one in. Similarly, they can’t keep you out. Your activities and grades, when it comes right down to it, are the most important (along with the essay and TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS)</p>
<p>If you’re ORM interested in engineering (like many are) you should aim for a 760+ math and hopefully a 2300+ total for super selective schools.</p>
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