<p>when the college only considers your highest score from each section but will STILL SEE YOUR MOST RECENT SCORE THATS LOWER FROM THE SCORE REPORT!!!?? my score dropped from 2230 to 2160</p>
<p>That is not a "drop" chill out; you didn't go from 2230 to 1600, jeez</p>
<p>Wow! People aren't even reading the previous threads to get the answer to this Frequently Asked Question of the day. Here's my FAQ answer: </p>
<p>The College Board keeps figures showing some students take the SAT five times or more, just as juniors and seniors.</p>
<p>Colleges say they look at your best scores--Harvard strengthens that to saying "ONLY your highest scores"--so the key idea is to gain the highest scores you can, without worrying too much about how many times you took the test.</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1</a> </p>
<p>But test scores aren't the only thing that matters for college admission, even for the students with the highest scores,</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882</a> </p>
<p>so make sure to take care of everything else that is important. </p>
<p>Bottom line: don't worry about it.</p>
<p>thanks a mil for the consolation</p>
<p>i think the better question is why did you retake a 2230</p>
<p>^^Seriously.</p>
<p>i'm asian and applying to top schools. i thought i could do better</p>
<p>I have heard from many sources that little comes from taking it more than 3 times...after that, you plateau or go down</p>
<p>that makes me feel better.
I dropped from a 2250 dec 07 to a 2010 oct 07.
bleh.</p>