<p>Topic^^^^?</p>
<p>Plenty of my friends do it, it's common practice with people applying to Japanese colleges, but I have no clue how it goes with American colleges. Their scores did improve after the third test.</p>
<p>If you show real improvement, it's not the greatest thing in the world but not that bad.</p>
<p>OTOH, if you're prepping so much that you can't do real things with your life (both ECs and just... living), it's time to reconsider your priorities.</p>
<p>Take the SAT as many times as you need to get the score YOU want. As long as you prepare in earnest, it is worthwhile pursuing a higher score. Taking it repeatedly WITHOUT better preparation is futile.</p>
<p>No college will ever GIVE you more points -or send you a sugar cookie- because you refrained to take it less than 3 times. On the other hand, chances are that a low-level clerical hired gun will transpose your highest scores on the admission folder that will be reviewed by a real adcom. Adcoms are busy enough analyzing the important information in your folder that they won't agonize over deciphering your exact number of standardized test's sittings.</p>