<p>I got an 800 Writing, 800 Math, but a 700 CR. I'm a bit nervous the 700 CR might mess me up, is it worth retaking the SAT's (which I obviously REALLY don't feel like doing) or are these score good enough. And yes, I know that the Ivies look at a lot more than SAT scores during admissions, but I just want to know whether the 700 CR will affect my chances by a lot.</p>
<p>Your score is obviously great. I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>No harm in retaking if you think you can bring it up to 750+</p>
<p>A 2400 would obviously be a more advantageous score. But 1500/2300 is a strong score outside of HYP and Caltech(not an Ivy but could still be in your sights). At those 4 schools, I think it will be around average for admitted students. For the other 5 members of the Ivy League, I think 1500/2300 will exceed the score of the typical admit.</p>
<p>You’re fine dude, save that money and buy something nice for yourself xD</p>
<p>A 2300 is an excellent score total and BTW, my son got into Caltech and MIT, early action, with a 2270. OTOH, my sons scores were 730/740/800. I think the reading score might not look quite so good for an ivy. The reading score is a lot more important than the writing score. If you could raise it, it would probably help. Practice reading!</p>
<p>A 2300, really? I can picture it now. A well dressed, middle-aged woman with designer reading glasses will sit at her Ivy League desk, open the envelope containing your SAT scores, immediately notice your 700 CR, snicker to herself, and toss the rest of your application, unopened and unwanted, into a stone Harvard fireplace which has incinerated the unworthy essays and letters of recommendation of so many centuries of foolish, rejected students before you. You have no chance before these testing fires.</p>
<p>Or like… your SATs are actually great and you need to take a bottle of chill pills.</p>
<p>Retaking it would never hurt you but a 2300 is excellent. I think that with a high GPA, good ECs, a hard course load, good essays, and good recommendations should give you a fair shot at the ivies.</p>
<p>How many times have you taken the SAT so far? If you’ve taken it three or more times already, it’ll be best to keep your current score. If less than three times, it wouldn’t hurt to retake…but your score is plenty high already.</p>
<p>It’s fine. Really.</p>
<p>Might as well not waste the money on applying.</p>
<p>At the top ivies a 700CR is well below average for an unhooked student with the 75th% above 770. On the other hand your 1500 M+Cr is fine if the rest of your application has what they are looking for. Keep in mind though that the vast majority of applicants with your scores will be rejected by HPYS as well as Columbia and Brown.</p>
<p>You seriously have an 800 SAT and you can’t analyze the data of admitted students to those schools?</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>C’mom. Are you looking for people to just pat you on the back???</p>
<p>buntyugo, you forgot to add your sarc tag. ;-)</p>
<p>Great score, OP. Sweat it not.</p>
<p>T26E4- At those schools a 1500 M+CR will put him below average for non-hooked students. In fact if you go look at the recent ED admit data the schools ranked 7th-20th also get many students with these scores. Go look at the ED data for Georgetown and ND this year on this site.</p>
<p>SAY, the difference between a 700 and a 750, say, is just a matter of a few missed questions. I can’t see how this would be a deal-breaker, when the other two scores are so high. :)</p>
<p>It’s not a deal breaker if they really want you at any school. But the applicant is unhooked and there are many,many other with equal or better scoring students out there so then it comes down to ECs, legacy, etc. Here is the ED list for ND. Take a look at the scores. I just picked ND randomly and the scores would be similar at the other schools. The difference between the top 5-6 and the next 10-14 schools really aren’t test scores and GPA but other unusual accomplishments that gets kids admitted to the very top schools. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-notre-dame/1051594-official-ea-results-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-notre-dame/1051594-official-ea-results-thread.html</a></p>
<p>This is the first time I’ve taken the SAT. My highest CR score ever (on a practice test) was a 770, but on practice tests I probably average 730-740. In that case, is it worth retaking for an extra 40 pts?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1057474-theres-no-difference-between-2300-2400-a.html?highlight=difference+2300+2400[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1057474-theres-no-difference-between-2300-2400-a.html?highlight=difference+2300+2400</a>
might want to take a look at the discussion.</p>
<p>SAY: I’m not saying a 2300 definitely gets anyone in. However, I’m left questioning the sincerity of the OP’s “Aw gee. Am I good enough?” manner of posing the question as if he/she had no clue whatsoever.</p>
<p>I’ll be blunt. I believe the OP is fishing for compliments.</p>