Is it a myth that colleges consider your highest SAT scores during admissions?

Test Preparation
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<p>I took the SAT three times. I have improved on my SATs (significantly) after three times and I don't want this improvement to affect my admissions because admissions is going to know that I only improve over the three times taking the SAT rather than being potentially good in one sitting taking the SAT. In other words, my scores, indicate that I actually studied for the SAT not naturally am at that level: and colleges might take notice. </p>

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<p>Refer to this document to see which schools use score choice and how:
<a href=“https://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf”>https://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Some colleges also superscore SAT test scores, meaning they only take your highest W/M/R scores.</p>

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<p>Since you improved each time, it’s not necessarily bad you took the SAT more than once. An upward trend and improvement are good things to have in standardized testing. To say that admissions would look down upon you for doing better after you took the SAT multiple times is slightly paranoid- you took it only three times, which is a reasonable amount of SAT sittings.</p>