<p>Here's a random question for you to answer or not as you wish: I see you are in Minnesota--are you an UMTYMP student? </p>
<p>There was a comment above in the thread about equating scores among different administrations of the SAT. The correct information about how that is done appears in the link below. </p>
<p>I think a few times should be ok, but please don't take it 10 times even if Harvard admission officer said so. It's always wise not to listen to what adcoms say publicly.</p>
<p>Of course my actual advice for applicants, which I think I have posted much in these words in some recent thread, is </p>
<p>a) prepare well before each time you take a standardized test regarded by colleges, </p>
<p>b) quit taking the test when you reach your target score, </p>
<p>and </p>
<p>c) don't forget to develop other desirable characteristics in a college applicant, such as good high school grades, active participation in extracurricular activities, and service to your community. </p>
<p>I find that a lot of young people have the worry that prompted this thread, and I guess admission officers find that too, so now there is an emphasis on hard-to-imagine example of taking the SAT test LOTS of times, just to underscore the point that a student shouldn't worry much about this issue. </p>
<p>I think it's wise to listen to informed sources from both inside and outside college admission offices about what the point of view of college admission committees is. I recommend to the original poster in this thread, and to any other interested person, attending one of the public information sessions planned for this coming school year, for example the Exploring College Options consortium </p>