<p>The schools have all the scores, but the admissions committees don’t always see them unless they read the folders carefully. At many schools a secretary or a computer program will notate the highest score in each section somewhere on the folder where it’s easy for the reader to see. </p>
<p>My older son got three 800s on the subject tests in one sitting. I don’t think anyone was overly impressed. (Certainly not MIT, Stanford and Caltech who all rejected him!) He was very happy though not to ever have to think about them again.</p>