<p>How bad does it look if someone takes the SAT 3 times. I jumped 100 points from my first to second test but i am still not satisfied. I know I can do better, but is it worth the risk. Would colleges like that I would take it 3 times. Please respond back. Thanks.</p>
<p>1st time: 1750
2nd time: 1850</p>
<p>if you know you can have a HUGE improvement, then retake it...</p>
<p>someone in these threads got into hyps even after taking it 5 times</p>
<p>thanks. </p>
<p>really 5 times?</p>
<p>more responses please!</p>
<p>They just write down your highest score in each section. Taking it more than 3/4 times tends to raise a few eyebrows, though.</p>
<p>3 times is fine, although it's generally the upper limit</p>
<p>i took the ACT 3 times: 29, 32, and 33. go for it if you think you can do better, but if not then don't take the risk of doing worse. i don't think 3 looks bad. i agree that it is probably the limit</p>
<p>dont take it more than 3 times. Study your ass off and and just try to crack 2000 next time. Hopefully superscoring can help you as well. Good luck.</p>
<p>what about four times? is that really bad even if you improve your scores?</p>
<p>i think its ok as long as you keep improving.</p>
<p>Don't worry so much about how many times you take it. But end up with a high enough score, and then go on to strengthening other aspects of your application. More details here: </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1</a> </p>
<p>What is your plan for improving your score? Group averages show that most students increase their score as they repeat the SAT, </p>
<p>and incidentally show that more than 6,000 students have taken the SAT five times as a junior or senior, but what score level would you like to reach?</p>
<p>I say take it three times max because your scores PROBABLY won't improve much afterwards. Anyways, you could spend your time doing other cool stuff XD.</p>
<p>I took the SATs the spring of freshman year and the fall of sophomore year and I'm planning on taking it in the spring of my junior year (hopefully for the last time) - how bad is that?</p>
<p>not bad because you took the other ones so early.....
yeah if you aren't getting better then don't keep taking it. i know someone who took it at every testing date this year because she didn't get the score she wanted...and i don't think she really improved that much. if you're not getting better then stop wasting your time.</p>
<p>The ACT is a lot different because to college its no diff. if you took it once or 2000000000000000 times.</p>
<p>my brother got denied from some top schools bc they said he took it too many times (3) when he called their admis. office to find out why he was denied. But he's at Berkeley now, so obviously they didn't care.</p>
<p>Which top schools said that?</p>
<p>yeah, that seems odd that taking the SAT too many times got him rejected.</p>
<p>I know, we thought it was too. They said he was on the "borderline" of being accepted, but they didn't like the fact that he'd taken the SAT so many times. I think it was CMC, Williams, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame, if I remember correctly. Maybe private schools just analyze things more deeply, or perhaps it was simply coincidence.</p>
<p>All of those schools told him that? What was his final SAT score?</p>
<p>Colleges superscore anyways..</p>