<p>i am French..</p>
<p>if i feel that i failed, should i just endure the agony and wait for the horrible scores to come?</p>
<p>Who tend to be worse than the Americans. :)</p>
<p>masha,
it sounds like canceling might be the best bet - the essay isn't that big a deal, but missing seven questions and having the potential for a run of misbubbled answers sounds like too many things wrong at one time. If you cancel now, you can just retake in May or June, and still have time for another sitting senior year if you want.</p>
<p>Really dont cancel. If you get a 1600, thats not good but I doubt you will in the first place. I wanted to cancel my Bio 2 years ago, I was thinking about ripping it up and walking out. I didnt because I remembered what everyone told me about not canceling, and I got a 790. And if you do get a 1600, retake it, get 2000+, and that will look like you messed up on the first one. Most kids if they retake it don't improve their scores that much (it still looks good if you improve) but they will see that you just messed up and are smarter than your first grade shows.</p>
<p>Don't cancel. You could have done really well on the other sections, which means that your overall score could still be favorable. You can't assume anything. Just relax, you might be working yourself up over nothing.</p>
<p>The essay is 30% of ur writing grade. I am sure it isn't that bad. Plus, you wrote some, so I bet you still at least get a 3 possibly a 4 if it was good up to that point, don't worry about it.</p>
<p>i highly suggest you cancel...you never want that feeling in the back of your mind if you do in fact don't get into several of the schools that you want because of this bad day for your sat...just cancel, take a deep breath, do some more practice tests and learn how to pace yourself, and take the sat again in may or june, you'll be fine, there will be absolutely no record of your cancellation, no college will even no that you were present for the test, just chill and everything will be okay =)</p>
<p>I don't know why the hell you would ever cancel because at my school, your scores are sent directly to the school, and then you are able to decide whether you want them sent ANYWHERE afterwards. That means that no one but you and your school know what you got on the SAT until you decide to submit your scores to a college. I thought this was available everywhere? Am I wrong?</p>
<p>your totally wrong...colleges see EVERY SINGLE SCORE YOU HAVE EVER TAKEN under collegeboard...everything, the form that says like SAT Reasoning Test Math: x Verbal: x or SAT II: Biology: x, etc etc, they see that form, all the scores on it, and they see your essay. Any college that you apply to, any college at all, will see all of your sat scores...the whole thing with "o the college picks the best 'composite' score" only means that when the college receives the scores, it "considers" only the best scores for your acceptance, but it will surely see your other scores and are easy to make a bias judgement.</p>
<p>I doubt that very much. Scores are sent to your school if you request as I have seen. Those scores are submitted anywhere if you do not indicate any colleges on any forms. </p>
<p>Lets assume your statement to be correct:
"All colleges sell all your scores."</p>
<p>Ok, I didn't indicate any colleges on any forms I submitted for the SAT, ever, so that means that every college in the entire nation, for that matter, world, will see my individual test scores. That's alot of hassle and paperwork for someone who may or may not be attending a particular college....</p>
<p>Therefore, all colleges see everyone's scores and therfore receive alot of paperwork that is unnecessary. This can't be true, so a student must indicate a possible college that they might want to attend in order for the scores to be sent there, correct?</p>
<p>okay i think there is a misunderstanding...listen...
when you are a senior, and its fall, and say you take the sats in october, you do well, and you know what colleges your most likely going to apply to, now on the website it gives you an option to send the scores to 4 schools for free, this means the school has a record of your sat score so when you apply to their school, it will pop up on their records. Now say you decide not to put any schools down on your form when you take the sat (like i have), and you apply senior year, and you go into the guidance office and say i want to apply to cornell, well along with your transcript etc, your school will charge $8 to send your sat score REPORT (which has every sat score you have taken) to the college of your choice that you want to apply too...when the college receives that report it will see all of the scores you have taken and once again as i said, "consider" the best composite score. Now there's another thing you mentioned about all colleges seeing your scores, that is def. NOT TRUE, the only thing ALL colleges get in terms of scores are psat score RANGES, so if someone who got like 1400-1600, they will get lots of emails and letters from top colleges, because they have the range your score was in. I hope that clears some gaps for you.</p>
<p>It does = > Thank you very much! :D This is really bad for me - My first "Old" SAT I got a 1000. :(</p>
<p>if you show improvement on your second test, and you show solid sat ii scores, then the college will take in to effect that you had a bad day that day with the 1000, or if you took that old sat a really long time ago (sophomore year) then they will also be leniant. but yeah, the 1000 may hurt you.</p>
<p>It's time to end this convo and stop making this guy panic.</p>
<p>I assume Harvard is prestigious enough for everyone out there? well here is some info from their official website regarding SAT scores:</p>
<p>If a student takes the required tests more than once, which results does Harvard consider?
We consider a student's best test scores, but it is generally our experience that taking tests more than twice offers diminishing returns. </p>
<p>think I pulled this out of my ass? go to</p>
<p>and near the bottom of the page click the question " If a student takes the required tests more than once, which results does Harvard consider?"</p>
<p>there it is as plain as day. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT YOUR BEST SCORES. they dont give a damn about your 400 on writing if you make it up with an 800 on another date. </p>
<p>so masha, don't worry about it. forget about the SAT for 4 weeks, get your scores back (online if you can get past all the CC traffic :-P) and see what you need to improve on. take the test in may or june and have fun :-P</p>
<p>Hallelujah I love you man! :D</p>
<p>that's from the harvard website, of course they will say that the best sat scores are considered, every goddamn school says that, the true fact is that the school receives the whole SCORE REPORT, okay look i asked my guidance counselor and she told me this explicitly, they only consider your best score, but they will see the 400, and that in my opinion DOES make a difference, and in my experience with talking to people in that situation and people who have gone through it, cancelling the score would have been much better rather than a college seeing the score that was horrendous.</p>
<p>You may have a point that "Harvard" would be biased in that respect, but most colleges WANT YOUR MONEY AND SO IF YOU MEET THEIR REQUIREMENTS THEY DON'T GIVE A GD. It's allllllll about money anyway, so yea.... ($986 million Test Prep Industry?!?!?!?!??)</p>
<p>WOW</p>
<p>I'm getting such conflicting info from you guys. seriously, it's just making me more nervous and indecisive. That stupid test made me have such a bad day. I was pretty down for all of today, lucky though my friends cam over with pie to cheer me up for an early pi day celebration.. :) but that's beside the point. </p>
<p>I think I'm going to cancel my scores. Although I do want to see (out of curiosity) the scores I received on math and reading (and perhaps I did better than i assume) Its just not worth it for me in the long run. I don't want colleges to see that horrible score, even if i get a 2000+ (which i know I'm capable of) on the next test, it will just tarnish my record and make me really uneasy knowing that 1600 is there for all to see. </p>
<p>Btw, for those of you who are wondering how a kid capable of 2000+ got a score like mine? Well, it's SLEEP. Or, lack of it. So kiddies, take a lesson from me, the week before the SAT DONT participate in any highly involved extra curricular activities like say... performing in a musical 6 nights a week. its DRAINING. This past week I've been coming home at 11-12 every night from my play. I've been functioning (barely) on 5 hours of sleep a night. I thought it wouldnt effect me on Saturday, but clearly I was wrong. In May I'll definitely sleep more.</p>
<p>just another rant...What happened on Saturday was a NIGHTMARE. I remember as our proctor passed by and picked up my test I was seriously shivering in a cold sweat, and had a pit in my stomach. I had at that point just realized that bubbling and skipping mistake I made in the last writing section.. that combined with my essay .... ouch. what a downer. I'm undeserving of college. I'm gonna go to Chico State. oh god. my life is over.</p>