<p>I took the new SAT earlier this month (for transferring purposes), already having taken the old one twice during high school. Much to my surprise, my math score went from a 790 to a 720. This might be because I woke up fifteen minutes before I had to be at the test site and rode by bike there. At any rate, will colleges take the better of the scores or not? This is really odd because I'm a math/science guy (A's in higher level classes, 35 ACT math, 790 before, etc.), and I ended up doing a bit better on both CR and verbal than on the math portion.</p>
<p>how long ago did you take it? if it was in, like, your sophomore year of high school and you're applying for junior transfer, then i think it would be understandable that you're a little rusty on SAT I math.</p>
<p>they might take into account the fact that the new SAT focuses on different concepts than the old SAT, and if you're in a math or science program now, it's highly likely that you wouldn't have done things like finding the equation of a line in awhile -- i know that i could rattle off trig identities and algebra 2 stuff forward and backward when i was 17, but now i practically have to write out the unit circle to figure out the sine of 0.</p>
<p>good luck! :)</p>
<p>So I assume the answer is a no? </p>
<p>My main problem, again, was that I was not fully awake. I answered each of the questions confidently; I knew what I was doing. I know as a matter-of-fact that all of my mistakes were just stupid calculation errors or simple oversights, which ***es me off *that much more. I hope that my old score is at least considered (and not just ignored).</p>
<p>Edit: I took the SAT in high school as a senior also in November.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. I know Rice takes the highest subscore.</p>