SAT Retake

[flamefist555]

<p>Greetings,</p>

<p>I am applying to MIT and I have one more date to retake the SAT (Jan.) and I am wondering whether I should retake the SAT reasoning test, or the SAT subject tests. </p>

<p>My SAT 1 scores were:</p>

<p>Reading: 560
Math: 790
Writing: 610</p>

<p>My SAT subject test scores were:</p>

<p>Chemistry: 720
Mathematics II: 650
Physics: 600</p>

<p>Whichever one I choose to retake, (SAT 1 or SAT 2), I am positive that I will improve the scores significantly. However, I am trying to decide where getting a higher score will help the most to get into MIT. </p>

<p>Any suggestions of which one I should retake?</p>

[Smoothie]

<p>I would retake the subject tests. Especially Math and Physics.</p>

[StarbucksBarista]

<p>Definitely SAT 1… Subject tests are important and all that but the SAT is more important… especially your reading and writing scores. SAT scores indicate to the admissions office that you can handle the coursework… if you can get the reading and writing scores up, I think that would show them more than getting your SAT Subject scores up. They need to know that you can read and write sufficiently before knowing that you can do math, physics, and chemistry…</p>