<p>Good god, young person. I think by now your test scores stand on their own weight. You probably reached the point of no-advantage after 3 times taking the test. Accept your highest and forgettaboutit.</p>
<p>I would encourage you to think about the rest of your application...your GPA, your class rank, your leadership challenges, your school participatiohn, your community service, and get some really strong recommendation letters, but for gosh sake...don't give any more money to the College Board or test preps...they could retire on your payments to them by now!</p>
<p>I took the SAT 5 times and still ended up with my math below 600. However i brought the score up from a 440 to a 580, my reading/verbal scores didn't really change though.</p>
<p>SAME HERE!!!! my last one i finally made an improvement of 110 points..it doesnt make that much of a difference tho for my score...definately an impovement but NOT enough</p>
<p>Peskemom: my BGO and RC told me to keep taking them because I need to improve before they can offer me NAPS or even USNA. I am physically and medically qualified, but with my SAT scores not scholastically. I want USNA so badly that I will do whatever to get in, if that means studyin and taking the SATs and ACTs again and again by all means tahts what I will do!! This is my last chance for my SAT on Jan 28 and last chance on Feb 11 for my ACT...im hoping to go all out and show them how dedicated and how much i really want this..im not gonna look back on this and think if i only study more and took them again, I DONT want that...this way i no i did everything that i could possible do</p>
<p>I saw in a post that there was some anger about the athletes who get into, Naps/USNA . Athletes may not even get a 1200 on the SAT, but they get in. Is that fair, yes...if you disagree... post about it and i will tell you why it is fair.</p>
<p>Exactly, furthermore, a student-athlete generates revenue for the school, with apparel sales and ticket/concession sales. A regular student does not.</p>
<p>but how could the Academy know if a midshipman is going to play one of their "money sports" (mainly football) just by looking at his application? </p>
<p>the admissions board has no way of telling if an applicant will play a money sport for them, and thus, the academic issue becomes iffy. </p>
<p>I am a recruited Athlete, I signed about a mounth ago, for lacrosse ( also a "money sport". There sending me to prep beacuase my math skills are weak. Dont you think the Admissions board knows whos a highly recruited athlete or not?</p>
<p>well, what i was meaning about the recruited athletes, is that if a kid has a nice record of sports, he's not necessarily going to play a sport when he gets to the Academy.</p>
<p>swimusna10, Your perserverence is admirable. I hate the tests and none of my children have had stellar scores in the past either. It can be very discouraging to see some kids in your high school score super high scores but who aren't very intelligent. Don't worry, the skills you seem to have will serve you well in the future. Good luck on the test!!</p>
<p>WOW!!! Oregon Mom, you hit it right on the head..I always say that it depresses me to see all these kids get high scores with not even trying or putting any effort in, and they aren't that intelligent at all. I am glad someone else agrees that that happens!!! In fact they could really care less about school and SAT scores, all they want is to party. But here I am, a good student that works extremely hard and my scores dont reflect that on the SAT, infact one would think I was almost dumb if they only looked at my SAT score :(</p>