<p>I have 9th and 10th grade scores that are not very good, around ~1900 and ~2200 respective, but much better scores from this year, junior year (2380). How much will my earlier scores hurt if I apply to top colleges?</p>
<p>I am URM, so can you tell me how this would affect me if weren't URM and how it does given that I am?</p>
<p>Okay. Worst case scenario… How would it look if my ninth grade scores were fall of Junior year; tenth grade scores, spring of Junior year; most recent, fall of Senior year.</p>
<p>I suppose this is the worst, unless of course, it makes it look like I was obsessed with the SAT since freshman year.</p>
<p>324 views and no responses… Wow.</p>
<p>You should retake them again in junior and senior year to improve</p>
<p>He said he already got a 2380 junior year. I’m sure they won’t really care about your earlier scores since your junior year test score is fantastic and that’s the one that really counts.</p>
<p>There are plenty of reasons you might have taken them as a Freshman, and you only have 3 sets of scores, so I wouldn’t worry. </p>
<p>For instance, say you wanted to participate in a CTY summer program (or an online class). Assuming your scores were not quite balanced, maybe you had high enough CR as a 9th grader, but not quite enough for the Math or Science class you really wanted to take. Fast forward to 10th grade, and you really wanted to take that Science class, so you took them again, and scored 700+ on each section, allowing you to take that class. Fast forward again to Junior year, when you know you can do still better than a 2200, and you want to get into a highly selective college. You show a reasonable amount of improvement year to year, which is to be expected. I wouldn’t worry - and no, it’s not worth taking them again on the chance you might somehow get 2400. 2380 is good enough.</p>
<p>My problem is not my score—it’s a superscored 2400, anyway. What concerns me is that there will be a 1980 on my application, and I really don’t want that to be counted against me.</p>
<p>^You only have to send the scores you want to send. Colleges will not see the 1980 if you choose not to send it to them.</p>
<p>Some colleges make you send all scores to them.</p>
<p>Colleges automatically superscore. Don’t worry about it</p>
<p>But some colleges like Princeton outright ask to see all scores.</p>
<p>They see all your scores (like Yale and as you’ve said Princeton), but they do superscore, disregarding the bad sectional scores on your earlier SAT I’s. No worries.</p>
<p>Best of luck</p>
<p>I would worry more about my GPA than about the great improvement in my scores from 9th to 11th grade.</p>
<p>Colleges will see you improved. Don’t worry - my friend (who is currently at Harvard) took the SAT 4x (once during each year of high school) and showed SIGNIFICANT (2000s -> near perfect) improvement. As others said, your 2380 will matter a lot more than the other ones.</p>
<p>But how much worse does this look than a 2300 from someone who only took the exam once?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t a top college expect all of its prospective students to have been capable of scoring 2300+ as freshmen anyway?</p>
<p>If you are a URM with a 2380 on the SAT, great grades, and a strong record of extracurricular involvement, you’ll do very well in the college admissions process.
Geesh. Where’d you get this idea?
I don’t get it. Why the fascination/obsession with your SAT scores? ;^)</p>