<p>I have taken the SATs once and I received a 2320. 800 Math, 750 Critical Reading, and 770 Writing. I'm retaking the SATs this upcoming saturday. I'm a junior in high school. Last semester my GPA was 4.15 and this semester it will be a 4.6. Do I have a chance to get into Stanford, Caltech, or MIT?</p>
<p>Why on earth are you retaking? A 2320 is a really good score, and there isn’t much of a need to retake.</p>
<p>Yeah, why ARE you retaking?</p>
<p>How did you prepare for your SAT? Just self study with books or did you attend a SAT course? If so which one and was it helpful?</p>
<p>Appreciate your answer.</p>
<p>You are wasting your time and money retaking.</p>
<p>Don’t retake it. What are your SAT II scores? Those, your class list, activities and essay will be the deciding factor. Your SAT is good enough to get in to almost any college.</p>
<p>Retaking it really does no harm to you. I know someone who got a 2350 and decided to retake. But you do need to provide more info if you want to know your chances.</p>
<p>Nope. Zero chance. You actually need a 2500 SAT and a 9.0 GPA.</p>
<p>Of course you have a <em>chance</em>, but grades are just the price of admissions. You need to focus on WHO you are, what you want to do, and how you can express that on your application.</p>
<p>2320 looks better than 2400, by the way. A 2320 says that you are really clever and put together. A 2400 says that you don’t know how to manage your time and spend time on SAT when you should spend time on your passions or intellectual pursuits.</p>
<p>I agree with the first half of what craiggonzales said BUT NOT the latter. What he said is extremely misleading. A 2400 is never downright bad. However, there are two ways a high score looks “bad.” The first is if an applicant has something like a 2.5 GPA and also scored a 2250+. Then the score indicates a slacker who has high potential but fails to utilize his abilities. The second would be a person who takes the test way too many times and tries to score a 2400. That case would match gonzales’s description. The situation concerning the OP would fall into the second category, but if he wants to, it is his choice.</p>
<p>Anyways, a 2400 should NEVER feel like a burden under normal circumstances. It’s a nice achievement to have, and gonzales, no offense, but I read a sprinkle of bitterness in your wording. If you can hit a 2400, why purposefully miss a question to score a 2390? At a certain point passed around 2300, the scores aren’t significantly different. There is no “A 2320 says that you are really clever and put together. A 2400 says that you don’t know how to manage your time and spend time on SAT” sort of thing.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need to retake. 2320 is a good overall score, and all of your individual subjects look great.</p>
<p>As for whether you have a “chance,” none of us have any real idea. GPA and SAT are merely two numbers that make up a part of your application, not the whole thing. But if those are the only things you have, then you’re in trouble.</p>
<p>We parents at a school local to Yale, were told several years ago by a Yale admissions person that Yale REJECTS 60% of the students with 2400 (perfect score) that apply to Yale. So I don’t think it is worth your time or money. Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, are looking for “something more,” things that make a student shine, different, things that will contribute to the enrichment of the whole cohort class. Yale’s website states (well, it used to–have not checked recently) that it is looking for students who will take advantage of the incredible resources offered by Yale. That does not have to do with scores–it has to do with WHO you have shaped yourself to be. Tests do not do that.</p>
<p>To tack on to what radimom said, essentially no one gets in a good school because of their scores. However, people will get rejected if they have poor scores, so essentially the key is to not have scores that are too low.</p>
<p>@cheerioswithmilk
Still, though, won’t really good scores (2300+) at least somewhat boost the chances of an unhooked applicant compared to someone with good scores (2150)? Not saying that someone would get in with scores alone, but I feel it’s still important, and not a coincidence that the average scores for top schools are very high.</p>