Retake 2360?

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<p>Haha, well I’m probably taking SATIIs in June. Might retake SAT next fall, if I feel like it. :)</p>

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<p>^what do you mean you feel like it? A bunch of people here, including myself, think you have a chance to get a 2400.</p>

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<p>I believe I have a good shot at getting a 2400 too. But I’m not sure I really want to spend another Saturday testing, especially since my score could decrease and colleges might wonder why I retook.</p>

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<p>yea, the decrease of score is a possibility, but if you get an 800 in writing, you can get a 2400 as a superscore. However, you won’t be able to say that you receive a 2400 in one sitting.</p>

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<p>Thankfully, that’s still relatively unlikely. I am very confident of always getting an 800 in CR and usually in math. Writing I just think is way too subjective.</p>

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<p>jersey - i know you felt very confident with your preparation for your jan sat, so what kind of prep/review did you do between that one and the march test? </p>

<p>kameron - what do you use for vocab? i knew every sc except the pantheon one, and i feel like there will always be one tough one like that that i don’t know</p>

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<p>Yeah I’m in a very similar, but a tad less slightly appealing situation in which I got a </p>

<p>CR: 800
M: 800
W: 710</p>

<p>Having the same dilemma my friend</p>

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<p>silenceizsik — Honestly, I just have a large vocabulary from reading and taking latin. I think honing your roots can be very helpful. Also, read good writing and whenever you see a word you don’t know, put it in quizlet.com and periodically quiz yourself.</p>

<p>tlashley — haha, yea. Damn writing. I just wish this was a decade ago, when I’d have a 1600. :/</p>

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Almost none lol. I felt like I was fully prepared by January and didn’t hit my target score due to a stupid mistake. I took one more BB practice test between January and March and didn’t miss an MC which convinced me that I had done all I could.</p>

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<p>btw, I also like the Chuck reference :)</p>

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<p>thank you both!</p>

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<p>Whoa that’s me! 800 M 800 CR 760 W (-2 MC 10 Essay)</p>

<p>I’m not retaking though…not worth the time.</p>

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<p>You’re ridiculous. Absolutely do not retake. When I saw this thread, I actually thought it was joke. Do something better with your time- go to a homeless shelter, serve soup to the pour, burn your SAT books and donate the ashes to rebuild Haiti… lots of things you can do instead of sitting down for four hours to fill in hundreds of bubbles for fourty points that honestly don’t matter.</p>

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<p>Though this is being said from the guy who got a 1460/2160 on the first try and didn’t retake… so what do I know?</p>

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<p>I would support your determination to retake. I retook two scores at the mid-2300s level in recognition of the escalating nonlinear correlation between standardized test scores and admission probability at highly selective universities.</p>

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<p>The correlation between test scores and admission probabilities has never been linear, nor is it increasingly nonlinear.</p>

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<p>I don’t support retaking after getting a 2360, but I believe mifune posted a study a while ago that shows the nonlinear correlation.</p>

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<p>True, however generalizing the nonlinearity of test scores to admission probabilities is about the same as saying that there is a correlation between test scores and admissions.</p>

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<p>failboat: Read the study before saying nonsense. It’s not just about test scores. It is very specifically about the correlation between test scores and admissions.</p>

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<p>I’m not talking “nonsense” nor am I making any observations on test scores, but as you obviously cannot take what I say in full seriousness, I’ve decided to do some research of my own.</p>

<p>Taking a random sample of applicants from the following universities:



Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Cornell University
Yale University
Harvard University
Princeton University&lt;a href="Data%20courtesy%20of%20College%20Confidential,%20all%20data%20were%20systematically%20mined%20without%20authentication,%20data%20may%20be%20skewed%20on%20smaller%20samples"&gt;/code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I've standardized the SAT and the GPA scores and created a list of 2 dimensional vectors describing the standardized test scores and GPA of each student of each university. I then ran each universities data through a ANOVA test on GPA and SAT scores and a MANOVA test on the 2D vector (see Hotelling's Multivariate test, an implementation of this test is included)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;[Python&lt;/a&gt; code - 52 lines - codepad](&lt;a href="http://codepad.org/QjOKJ8Xm%5DPython"&gt;http://codepad.org/QjOKJ8Xm) - Hotelling's T Test implementation&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;a href="http://failboat.me/schooldata.png%5B/img%5D"&gt;http://failboat.me/schooldata.png

&lt;/a&gt; 2D graphical representation + test results&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note that the null hypothesis here is that the sample distributions of the accepted and the rejected students are uniform. In which case a statistical probability above 5% would mean that there are no correlations between the variable and acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Only half of the schools have significant deviations between SAT scores segregated by standardized scores. Most universities, after combining the SAT and the GPA scores, failed to reject the H0 after running the H-test. So please, tell me, how could there be a nonlinear correlation between SAT and acceptance rates when half of the schools do not even display a correlation at all given that the applicant's SAT score is above 2100?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And to answer your question, no, you do not need to retake as there are no significant benefits that a 2400 score will get you that a 2200 score cannot. At the same time, a 2200+ score will not remotely guarantee your acceptance. Unless you can write a good essay, there's no sense in boasting about your scores.&lt;/p&gt;