<p>If you want to retake it, that's really none of my business to tell you shouldn't. Everyone has different goals, everyone has different standards. My SAT is about 100 points lower than yours, and I'm retaking it because I know I can do much better. I say that to say this: I know that my score is 'good enough', but I want to do the best I can possibly do. You wanting to do that, as well as your need to best your friends, is understandable IMHO.</p>
<p>my god people want to retake a 2330 for me anything over a 2200 is good enough for me. remember there are people who wish they could get the score you all got.</p>
<p>Since everyone is taking you down, I'll stick up for you: I really want to retake my SAT Math as well. Haha. (It's a little higher than yours but all MY friends have freaking 800s.)</p>
<p>I haven't registered yet (SAT IIs take precedence) but I'd say go for it. It can easily be a fluky thing, the difference between 710 and 800.</p>
<p>People who crap on others who want to do better for themselves should get lives, or focus on their own. Each person has different goals. Even if you guys have the same target schools as the OP, you may have different ECs or academic profiles, different things you're focusing on. No one would tell you to volunteer less or win fewer awards, so leave the OP alone about the SATs. Please.</p>
<p>I'm in a boat right next to you (2300, but a 700M).... I'm planning to do the same thing as you - I don' think there are any flaws because CB doesn't go around sending out free score updates automatically.... but if there are, somone please pm me.</p>
<p>I strongly, strongly recommend you don't retake it. a) It's already so high. b) Chances are, your score will go down. c) You could be doing more valuable stuff with your time.</p>
<p>I'm also in the same boat..in fact if you switch your critical reading and writing, we're brothers..I'm thinking about retaking in October (mainly because I know two people at my school with 2400s and that at least 10 other people are over 23..). I have a friend who retook a 2360..but ended up cancelling the score because he thought he got one wrong on math..I dont think it hurts..so long as you dont get a really bad score, in which case you can always cancel</p>
<p>Sounds like you posted this purely to get attention.</p>
<p>If not, why did you? The only gaping hole in your logic is that $41.50 could've been used to buy something more entertaining than a 5 hour test on Saturday.</p>
<p>lol I sense a lot of animosity here. </p>
<p>"regression towards the mean" only exists for those who got lucky. If your personal mean is around a 2400, chances are you will get higher if you got unlucky and somehow got a 2310. By all means, go for it. I was considering retaking my score (2390) cause my friend got 2400 and at least 5-6 other people got 2350+ and I want to shame them. Teach tehm modesty. I probably can't do as well anymore since my "fighting spirit" is gone after taking the test. only around 30% confident I can get a 2400 if I retake. The risk is too big. </p>
<p>WHICH IS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD TRY TO NAIL IT, POWN IT, and KILL THE SAT ON THE FIRST TRY. </p>
<p>Otherwise it will keep coming back. You keep thinking to yourself, just 10 points more. Just 10 points more and I would have gotten it and the idiot thought of retaking it flashes in your mind too. Gahhh!!</p>
<p>If you are 70% confident you can do better, go for it man! But watch out. THere is an idiot at my school, as typical of a lynbrook student, he retook a 2300. He got extremely lucky the first time, but got the score I guessed he would get the second. 2120. Very arrogant to think that the 2300 wasn't luck and that he could get higher. But that is the worst cause colleges will see that his 2300 was a fluke. hahahah</p>
<p>First off, I find this board absolutely hilarious. I love it. Esp. how you (original poster) aren't even on planning on sending the scores this time around, and you think that taking the SAT is fun. This was exactly the mindset of my friend who scored a 2320 first time around.. she knew she would and did end up with a composite 2400, but still (she went in with no virtually studying, and only problem was 8 essay and just the slightest brain lapse in last section of writing.. which is her strongest subject). In the end it makes almost no difference as said multiple times here.</p>
<p>Moving on, guys...</p>
<p>I would not want to switch places with this kid.</p>