<p>I heard that colleges will look at every SAT score set sent to them and take only the highest score from each subject when molding a students final SAT score for admissions. Assuming this is true, what would happen were I to score a 640 on math and 510 on reading the first time, then get a 510 on math and a 640 on reading the second time? Would prestigious colleges be more likely to accept me for getting a 1280 overall or would they likely decline me due to the inconsistency in my score reports?</p>
<p>Some schools “super score” (i.e. take the best score in each section), but others take the best single sitting score.</p>
<p>And highly selective schools use rather opaque holistic evaluation methods, so there is not really a way to tell how super score versus single sitting looks to them from the outside (although having less than 700 on each section lowers the chance of admission from low to extremely low at the most highly selective schools, so your example scores would not be very competitive at such schools).</p>