<p>I heard 3 from my counselor, but I think it's a load of bull.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, if you do a search most people on CC say 3 ... but who knows?</p>
<p>^by load of 'bull', do you mean that 3 is too many, or that you feel that beyond 3 is okay?</p>
<p>Why anyone would pay, what is it, $100+ to write a 4 hour exam more than three times is beyond me... :P Why not prepare sufficiently so you only need to retest once at most? Plus you need time to take the SAT IIs, and hey there's also having some semblance of life outside of studying. ;)</p>
<p>I would say three times should be your absolute maximum.</p>
<p>Most people I know, including myself, took it twice.</p>
<p>Try once for spring of junior year (around March - May sometime). And then another time in the fall of senior year (aim for the September test, any later than that, you're already bogged down with college apps and the craziness of first semester of senior year...).</p>
<p>Three should be your max, two is what most students take.</p>
<p>I don't know why everyone says it but most people say 3.
Keep in mind that the people telling you three are probably people who like you are in high school, far from experts.
I don't really see why colleges would care how many times you took it and I don't think that giving a set number such as three is applicable to all cases. What if you took it twice as a freshman, twice as a junior. You're over the magic number 3, but if your junior scores are much higher than your freshman scores why would the admissions people care. </p>
<p>I took the test 5 times, and was accepted to Notre Dame, Boston University, University of Florida, West Point, and the accelerated medical program at USF.(the only place i applied to and didn't get into was Princeton, but I really doubt it anything to do with me taking the SAT two extra times, more likely that I didn't really have any desire to go there and they could tell in my essays etc.)</p>
<p>The only time I could see a college admission person caring about how many times you took the exam is if you took it like 10+ times and got a 1400 on one of them but all you other scores were 1000-1200. They might think you just got lucky and not put as much value on your 1400.</p>
<p>But anyway, like I said I am not a college admission person, I'm just an 18 year old and in my experience taking it more than 3 times won't hurt your chances.</p>
<p>okay .</p>
<p>from what i hear, after you take your third test your score gets averaged with your previous scores. so three is the max for getting the top score before they start averaging it up.</p>
<p>Uninfatuated, there is no such thing. Colleges only take ur best scores. It can be even frm different years for the subscores. There are interns who write wht is ur best score on top of ur file while shifting through apps. They dont even bother how many times u took.
Colleges dont care bout all tht.</p>
<p>Uninfatuated, from whom did you hear that?</p>
<p>There's nothing technically wrong with taking the SAT multiple times, other than the possibility it may make you look desperate or weird. Most colleges "superscore," which means they will consider your score to be the highest you received on each of the three parts of the SAT.</p>
<p>I think its 3 times max</p>
<p>It's rumor about averaging after taking three times. I also believe 3 is the perfect count, not more.</p>