My daughter took the old SAT twice and will take the new SAT in March. I’ve started to read about penalties for taking too many times. Will the SAT change negate this, as I expect? We just attended multiple admissions briefs and all mentioned that they will not superstore across versions. Seems natural to take at least two of the new version to have one shot at a super score. Without a change, this likely would have been her last attempt.
What penalties are you referring to? Are you talking about schools like Stanford that require all scores to be sent seeing how many times your daughter has taken the test? If those are the penalties you are referring to, then yes I suspect the SAT change will negate this, as many people will have probably tried both tests multiple times.
If you want to see if she can get a higher score on the new SAT, go ahead and do it. There aren’t any penalties for taking the test multiple times (other than the cost and time she will spend studying for it).
Yes, I was referring to admissions at the highly selective schools. She started taking standardized tests earlier than most so she will have more attempts but it’s been once per semester, not every time it’s offered. We had no intent to take it senior year but probably will not to get the opportunity to have a Superscore on new SAT.
Don’t worry about it. A devout former poster on CC who got into some fantastic colleges stated there is no evidence schools will hold it against a student when they take the SAT/ACT more than X times and I think he knew his stuff. If you’re happy with the Old SAT score I might not recommend the new version but if you think she still might improve then go ahead.
Thanks @“Erin’s Dad” and @sophie9999 . She likes the ACT better and has done much better on ACT than SAT but she did well on PSAT and a simple lesson in prob and stats will shore up her one trouble spot in math so we’re cautiously optimistic on new SAT which she’ll take in March.
She’s taken ACT/SAT once per semester since second semester sophomore year. Far enough apart to progress each time but not always be taking a test. Her composites have steadily increased but math and verbal flipped on last SAT.
She has never studied for one, mostly due to a rigorous academic load. She now believes she can do it and is motivated to put the time in this summer. With a few SAT/ACT tests under her belt, she can now analyze trouble and try and make that hard incremental improvement for the top scores.
Taking SAT II’s in June - that’s a whole new world and she won’t have a lot of time to study after finals but we’ll see.