<p>My son now a junior scored 2400 the first time he took the SAT. Do people think that colleges take note of that for admission or do they look at superscores as equivalent no matter how many times the test was taken?</p>
<p>Is this a serious question?</p>
<p>Not a question; rather an excuse to brag about his son’s 2400. :/</p>
<p>What’s a superscore? Is your son’s superscore 2400?</p>
<p>Ummm I’d take a perfect anytime over some superscore… though I think I smell a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>as a serious answer - of course it is.
It may not be immediately obvious to a school that superscores so drawing it to their attention elsewhere in your app may help (to the extent any halp is actually needed with such a score)
It will likely qualify him for the Presidential Scholars Program which looks at single sitting scores only, and only M+CR.</p>
<p>Agree with the above poster, but really, this question seems like a thread to brag about the 2400. </p>
<p>If your son got a 2400 first time, congrats to him. Colleges will love it, and he has a bright future.</p>
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<p>With the exception of the single-sitting colleges (such as the UC’s and Michigan), the short answer is ‘no’, sorry. In some/many cases, the adcom won’t even see the number of times the test was taken. Essentially, a ‘clerk’ obtains the score report and writes the highest score per section on the outside of the folder, and then stuff the CB report inside. The only way for the adcom to know is go looking…and once s/he sees 800-800-800 on the outside, why waste the time to go look inside?</p>
<p>When colleges say that they don’t care if you retake, they mean it. And the reason for that is it benefits them.</p>
<p>^Yeah it does benefit them.Basically increases their average score if you can retake and higher the average the better.</p>
<p>Ivies have THOUSANDS of applicants. They have to go through all of these applications in a limited amount of time. On top of going through so many apps, they have to read your essays and letters of recommendations and mid year reports and transcripts. You really think that they will stop and look at your 2400 SAT and think, “hey, I wonder if he got this in one sitting”.
You are dilusional if you think so.</p>
<p>LOL ^^^^hahahhaha:)</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son! And welcome to the 2400 Club. Feels pretty damn good, doesn’t it!</p>
<p>Just make sure no one at his school knows about it, or he’ll suddenly be judged for it whatever he does. (ex. “How can you do something so dumb when you got a 2400.” or “I should’ve gotten a 2400 since I scored better o this Calc test.”)</p>
<p>Anyway, it’s an amazing achievement. Enjoy riding the high until August, then have him start cranking out his apps. A 2400 is not a free pass to the Ivy League, trust me. Especially not in the current admissions climate. I was rejected from Columbia with plenty of leadership positions, 1000+ hours of community service/volunteer work, and a book published in my name, as well as being URM.</p>
<p>Take nothing for granted, and work hard on those essays! Best of luck!</p>
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<p>For some schools this may be true, but Harvard doesn’t seem to think so: [Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Frequently Asked Questions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/faq.html#13]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/faq.html#13)
“We consider a student’s best test scores, but it is generally our experience that taking tests more than twice offers diminishing returns.”
Congrats to your son for making a perfect score the first time. It’s a great accomplishment, but in the end, if you’re wondering how much this would really affect college admissions, no one knows for sure except the adcoms themselves.</p>
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<p>First of all, Harvard doesn’t say that they hold it against applicants for retaking it (although they will probably get suspicious if you take it 4+times) and second, that statement by Harvard means that students who take tests more than twice get lower scores in general; that’s what diminishing returns means. I don’t know why you included that quote</p>
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<p>I suppose that the phrase “diminishing returns” can be construed in more than one way, but I interpret it to mean that taking the test multiple times can diminish its positive effects; on the other hand, diminishing results would probably better fit the description of getting lower scores after taking it more than twice. However, arguing about the technicality of that statement is rather pointless: my purpose was to show that perhaps some colleges do place a distinction between taking a test once and taking it multiple times.</p>
<p>True it probably means it both ways</p>
<p>I think it’s impressive for first time scorer to get 2400, but not impressive enough to be admitted solely based on SAT perfect score. I wonder if the colleges that require to send all testing history have a little flag to indicate how many times the SAT was taken.</p>
<p>I think 2400 first score is very impressive, but not that much incrementally impressive than superscore 2400. I think at a smaller school, i.e., Wesleyan, ac’s do look at how many times you’ve taken the test, and if you take it like 4x to get superscore 2400, that is not as impressive as the first scorer 2400. If all other qualifications are pretty close, and they had to weed someone out, I would think the first scorer 2400 has an advantage.</p>
<p>But what about the international, who E. G. scores 1700 on the first time, 1900 on the second time and the last time her/his score equals to something like 2200.
One note is that scores in all sections is being increased evey time the student passes the test.
Is this a problem? In other words, will ADCOMS think that this score is not impressive as that would be if it was earned on the first-sitting?</p>
<p>^Ive always wondered about that as well. going from 1700 to like 2200 in three tries.</p>
<p>But if they look at in a really negative way, that means that the test is flawed. Because 2200’s indicate the same level right.</p>