<p>I'm currently a junior
Oct SAT scores
SAT Test Reading
690
Math
650
Writing (8 on essay)
620
=1960</p>
<p>then I took it in January and got
Reading
670
Math
660
Writing (10 on essay)
780
=2110</p>
<p>This is with around 2 months of sat independent prep in December. </p>
<p>I'm striving for Princeton or Stanford, and browsing through CC made me discouraged because everyone's saying that you should get at least 2200. I'm just worried that colleges may look down on people who take the SAT a third time... Do you think I'm at my apex or there's still room for improvement to strive for a 2200? I was really surprised and happy when I hit 2100, but I now think it's not good enough.
I have a bunch of ec's, leadership, sports, and a high gpa (taking 5 ap classes this year). I'm not worried about that part of gpa and ec's, just mainly my sat. I don't want the sat to be the deciding factor of my acceptance.</p>
<p>Please give me your advice and experience w/ SATs. Retake, yay or nay? Thanks :)</p>
<p>If all else is good on your application, SATs aren’t the end of the world. I am a high school senior and two of my classmates have been accepted to MIT and Penn with ~2000 SAT scores. Having said that, I don’t think there’s any harm in taking it again. I took the SAT 3 times. The first I got a 2030 (660CR, 650M, 720W), the second 2120 (700CR 690M 730W). I wanted to get >700 in math so i took the test again and ended up getting a 2340 (800CR 740M 800W). I believe my experience was unusual and perhaps somewhat lucky but taking it a third time really boosted my application. The question you should ask yourself is, when you walked out of your SAT, did you really feel that you could have done better? If so, I would suggest taking it again, but if not, don’t just expect to do better because you’ve already taken it twice. FYI, I was accepted to UVA EA and am waiting on Duke, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Northwestern, WashU, Georgetown.</p>
<p>I would say retake. There’s really not much reason not to. If you do worse, colleges really don’t care too much as most of them look at your highest scores per section. If you do better, then obviously that boosts your chances. Some colleges may look more down upon multiple tests than others. This list might give you an idea of what school considers what, it doesn’t necessarily tell you how much the school cares about number of tests taken, however.</p>
<p>And another question is what ethnicity are you of? I know it’s racist, but college admissions do consider what race you are. An African-American with a 1900 SAT has a good shot at getting into a top ivy school, but an Asian with a 2200 - not so much.</p>