<p>Honestly, it ****es me off that some colleges don't accept score choice!</p>
<p>And I know a bunch of people are going to make the "Who cares if they don't accept score choice if they superscore?"</p>
<p>Well I CARE.
I would use score choice if some schools didn't reject it!</p>
<p>Anyone else share my frustration?</p>
<p>Yup, though maybe not quite to that degree 
Tufts, Penn…</p>
<p>I’m actually not a huge fan of the SAT at all haha</p>
<p>I suppose, but on the plus side, if you do bad one test, but make it up with a good test, colleges see improvement and they like that. And you could “lie” by not sending in every score, colleges won’t know, but that’s unethical.</p>
<p>I don’t care if they like improvement. I want to send in one or two really strong sittings. Because score choice isn’t accepted at all schools, I’m not taking the SAT until my senior year.</p>
<p>What makes you so sure you will attain a good score in that one sitting. Colleges understand if you take it twice. Your first test is always your worse. It gives you an actual sense of testing conditions and where you need improvement. Practice tests can give you that, but only to a certain degree.</p>
<p>I think not accepting score choice is better. Score choice means you could take the SAT 6 or 7 times and send in your best performance whereas denying score choice forces you to try and perform every time you decide to take it.</p>
<p>I share the frustration. PENN!!! WHY!!!</p>
<p>Here’s a suggestion: don’t **** up the first time. That way, you won’t be so frustrated when you want to send in better scores than you initial crappy ones.</p>
<p>Putting off taking the SAT till your senior year is a seriously bad idea. You’re putting yourself under enormous pressure to prepare for the test at the same time you’re dealing with courses and filling out applications, not to mention trying to enjoy your senior year. And stop feeling like schools are out to get you somehow by asking to see all of your scores. They just want to see your full body of work, and it’s really unlikely that lower scores on your first attempt will hurt you at all. Truly, waiting to take it for the first time as a senior makes you look like a procrastinator or worse, a flake. Take it as a junior for the first time, then if you feel you need to, try again as a senior.</p>
<p>Well I’m taking the ACT in April and am projecting a good score (I got a 32 on an official practice test, plus it’s just more suited to my abilities).</p>
<p>For the SAT, I’m 700+ in both reading and writing, but my math is in the low 600s AT BEST (I’ve gotten in the 500s too). That’s why I want to work on math over the summer and then take the SAT in like September, then retake in October, November, or December if need be.</p>
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Score fluctuation due to pressure on the real exam may be something to worry about.</p>
<p>^In the ACT, your better score automatically replaces your other score. So it doesn’t really matter as much as the SAT, since their policy is they only send your best score. So there’s not as much pressure, I imagine.</p>