<p>I would say that if a school says it superscores, then a 2400, even if it takes five sittings, is just as good as a 2400 taken in one sitting.</p>
<p>Don’t get over-confident, however. My brother’s kid got something like a 2370 about four years ago, and he still got rejected by some Ivies.</p>
<p>Going from 1700 to 2200 for international students can be caused by the improvement of English, so I strongly believe that none of these guys will be punished for this. On the contrary, if I were an adcom, I would support student’s sucess.</p>
<p>However, I am not an ADCOM, so the story can be different in adcoms’ eyes.</p>
<p>To steer us back to the 2400 discussion, I think that ADCOMs view 2300s as the same as a 2400, essentially. While a 2400 may be initially impressive, a student who gets a 2310 one month might have easily attained a 2400 the next. Each test is different, and so is each student’s skill set. Past a certain point, it should not matter THAT MUCH.</p>
<p>So what is a superscore -I went to college back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth .</p>
<p>Obviously. Superscores could mean this:
Test 1: 800 M, 750 CR, 700 W
740 M, 800 CR, 710 W
740 M, 710 CR, 800 W
That would be a 2400 superscored.</p>
<p>It’s more impressive, but not by a huge margin. The best thing about it is you can say adios to the test and get on with making yourself into a truly interesting, memorable, and impressive applicant and person.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that when an applicant takes the SAT multiple times (say, 3+), colleges generally look for an “upward trend” in scores. I’ve also heard that colleges take your most recent score into consideration more so than the others. </p>
<p>Colleges do consider superscores, but they obviously look at what you get in a single sitting. The official score reports from the Collegeboard indicate all your “single-sitting” scores, but you would have to tally up the highest individual sections by hand to superscore…making your total score “inflated”, I guess you could say.</p>
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<p>Nope, and that is the big fallacy. Adcoms have no reason to “look”. Adcoms don’t have time to pull out the CB & ACT reports and tote up the numbers and them compare to see which is better. Admissions clerks perform that task and write the highest score on the outside of the folder, saving the app reader precious time.</p>
<p>Of course, every college processes admissions differently, but this is one example of how and why a single-sitting score has no more value than a superscore. It is in the colleges OWN best interest to accept your highest scores, and they do.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that there are still many schools that do not superscore.</p>