<p>ok so i think i did REALLY bad on my US History SAT II and i don't get what's the diff. between cancelling your scores and retaking them? why do so many people cancel their scores before even seeing them? isn't it better to just retake it? and would colleges see my BAD score or would they use score choice and check the higher score if i took two US history SAT 2s? whats your take?
thanks. i think i'm going paranoid with all this.</p>
<p>Canceling your score means that your score won’t be on record; there won’t be any trace of it. Score choice allows you to hide scores from colleges, but not all colleges are honoring Score Choice. Check with the colleges you plan on applying to and see if they allow score choice. Most colleges super-score, meaning they take the higher or the highest of your scores.</p>
<p>You have until tomorrow to cancel. If you are pretty sure you’re going to retake it again and are absolutely confident that you bombed your first test, then I recommend canceling. You can get about 10 wrong on SAT II USH and still get an 800, so there is chance your score isn’t as bad you think.</p>
<p>Score choice doesn’t work the way you talked about it.</p>
<p>Score choice means YOU pick scores to send to colleges and as long as if that school accepts the score choice policy, they will only see the scores you have picked.</p>
<p>However, schools like HYP or other higher tier schools REJECT the score choice policy and thus request for ALL scores to be sent to them.</p>
<p>As for score canceling and whatnot–it’s because of what I just outlined!</p>
<p>After discussing the test on forums like this (we’ve outlined like 89 of the 90 questions on the USHistory SATII, for example) you can determine how well you did. If you are trying to get into colleges like Harvard or Princeton who REJECT score choice, then you would HAVE to cancel the score so that it is not seen.</p>
<p>Otherwise, yes, most colleges prefer to have all scores (even bad ones) and like to see a retake. This shows dedication and improvement–if you can raise the score, it’s either compensating for a day when you were sick or not feeling well, OR you practiced hard and improved your intelligence.</p>
<p>Diligence and motivation, not to mention hard work, is something valued by all people.</p>