Regarding very similar SAT scores - should i use score choice or should i not?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
1

<p>I'm applying early to UMich and have a question regarding using super score:</p>

<p>It states on the score sending page that
"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR has indicated that it considers your highest section scores across all SAT test dates that you submit. Only your highest section scores will be considered as part of the final admissions decision."</p>

<p>The first time I took the SAT
CR: 700
Math: 650
Writing: 640
Total: 1990</p>

<p>The second time I took the SAT
CR: 730
Math: 670
Writing: 630
Total: 2030</p>

<p>I'm thinking about unticking one of the tests when I send in my score reports, considering that there would only be a 10 point difference in my total score if I used superscore and replaced my 630 writing from the second take with the 640 of the first take.</p>

<p>My questions:
- can UMich even see that I am only sending one test in/I am not super scoring when they review my app?
- would it benefit my app in anyway if it looked as if I only took the test once and was sending only that one score in?
- what do you think? super score or no super score? which is better in this context?</p>

2

<p>If you report that you took the test more than once, then they’ll know you didn’t send them all.</p>

<p>People regularly take the SAT twice with no ill effects… and no bonus effects for only taking it once.</p>

<p>The SAT has the following characteristics:

  • A standard error of measurement of about 30 points. That is to say if you took the test on another day with no additional prep or learning, odds are that 68% of your scores would be within +/- 30 points of the original.
  • A standard error of difference of about 40 points. That is to say it takes a 60 (standard error x 1.5) point difference to demonstrate a difference in knowledge/ability in the tested area.</p>

<p>Send the higher composite, the 10 point difference in writing is statistically insignificant.</p>

3

<p>sorry to hijack this thread, but how about for me:</p>

<p>first time:</p>

<p>780m
750cr
610wr</p>

<p>second time</p>

<p>800m
720cr
750wr</p>

<p>do you think it would be worth it to send both? I am leaning towards doing it.</p>

4

<p>I’d send the second set only.</p>

<p>As before, the 30 point critical reasoning drop, is within the standard errors of measurement and difference, making it statistically insignificant from a testing what you know standpoint.</p>

<p>A 720 was at the high end of the middle 50th percentile (and thus probably around 70-75th percentile of those admitted) for the 2010 admits.</p>