<p>Will ivy league colleges take the highest sat score from each section on the new sat. For example if someone gets:
750m 430cr 450w
500m 660cr 450w
500m 450cr 670w</p>
<p>Will the ivy league colleges take the 750m 660cr 670w to get a total score of 2080.</p>
<p>those are such... strange scores</p>
<p>I know William/Mary takes the combination of the best scores; you have to check each college's site, look at their guidelines for yourself. Each school's policy is different.</p>
<p>ivy league colleges do that ?</p>
<p>I honestly don't know how good a 430 and 450 will look on the score report, which they do see before taking your highest scores...although they're only supposed to look at the highest scores, I'd think scores in the 400's would really stick out </p>
<p>unless you made those scores up just for the sake of the question</p>
<p>i thought the secretary , just like take the highest and puts that on the report</p>
<p>..they see your sat score report from college board</p>
<p>well obviously he/she made up some of those scores...seeing as how the new SAT has only been given once</p>
<p>o ok will the 400s affect admission much? i did get the high scores on the other tests making up for the low scores. they are just sample scores, not real scores</p>
<p>Their policy is that they just look at the highest scores, but these peopel are human, and everything they see must affect their decision in one way or another. Even if the low scores aren't SO low, if you have like a 300 point fluctuation, that has to raise some eyebrows. I could definitely be wrong though.</p>
<p>I got 790M/600R/680W</p>
<p>What would happen if next time I made some mistakes in the math & got...</p>
<p>700M/700R/700W</p>
<p>Is that good enough for them to take the top scores still, or would the 700 math be a problem?</p>
<p>jimmy...allow me to quote myself "unless you made those scores up just for the sake of the question" </p>
<p>i don't care how many times the test was administered, I'm a senior, I'm thinking about going to Cornell, not taking the SAT</p>
<p>I heard a rep from a major Ivy League school answer that precise question, saying, yes, Ivy League schools do only consider the highest score from each of the three SAT sections, irrespective of the dates on which various tests were taken and the number of times a student has taken the SAT.</p>
<p>So, if you take the SAT three times and get:</p>
<p>1) 200, 200, 800
2) 200, 800, 200
3) 800, 200, 200</p>
<p>your SAT score, for Ivy League purposes, is 2400.</p>
<p>That's the way it was explained, but I'd recommend directly contacting the schools you're interested in.</p>
<p>Univ of CA schools, on the other hand, do not follow the above practice. UC schools take the best overall set of scores from a particular test day.</p>
<p>Also, some schools do have someone only enter the highest scores so the admissions staff never sees the lower scores. Others have the admissions officers look directly a the CB report, so they see everything.</p>
<p>Honestly, though there may be a slight psychological effect of having lower scores on your report, it is probably negligible in most cases. Schools that say they'll only consider your highest scores in each section really will.</p>
<p>Also, while they technically only consider the highest scores, if it comes down to a judgment call and you've done badly on previous testings, and somebody did very well after only 1 test, it's obvious they would prefer the latter.</p>