<p>What I mean is do schools see how many times you have taken the SATs and how many times you have taken them?</p>
<p>I ask because if I take the SATs again, I will be going in for my third round and don't know if the increase in score is worth the possibility of taking three tries to get a better score.</p>
<p>Take it again only if you truly believe you are more prepared this time. I’m sure 3 times isn’t too bad, but more than that is a little odd.</p>
<p>Yes, 3 is the magic number. However, most all college claim that they won’t hold “over-testing” against you, so I wouldn’t be concerned.</p>
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<p>It depends on whether or not you use Score Choice. And whether or not you use Score Choice depends on the schools policy on sending test scores:</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>For top end colleges most people say 2 but it just depends on the college you would like to attend and their score reporting policy.</p>
<p>Agree that for schools not accepting score choice, twice is the ideal limit.</p>
<p>the reason top schools don’t want students overtaking SATs/ACTs is that they believe that there’s a limit to what can be derived from the scores in general. They don’t want to encourage a body of test-taking drones.</p>
<p>This is the same rationale why schools like Yale don’t take superscoring. Their thinking is take the test once or twice and leave that behind – focus on being a great student – not to try to fit in some perceived Yale mold.</p>
<p>IMHO three times is fine, especially if it’s obvious that the student “really screwed up” one attempt.</p>
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<p>No, this is not the reason. The reason is because there’s an advantage to doing so in that statistically, most will have their score go up with the experience of taking the test. Multiple attempts also suggests test prep in between, another advantage.</p>