<p>I took the SAT 4 times, with a significantly higher score each time. My first score is really low in comparison to my last one. I was just planning on sending in my highest score, which was the most recent time that I took it, but the UC website says that they require you to send in all scores. I read somewhere that taking it that many times looks bad, but will they penalize me if I just send in the last score?</p>
<p>The UCs don’t care how many times you take the SAT (some private colleges care, but that’s a different issue). The UCs request the students to submit everything because they will crunch the numbers and convert everything to a UC score (in order to compare SAT and ACT on equal footing). Lower scores are tossed (some UCs will only show the highest converted score in the application file; other UCs may display all scores but the readers are trained to disregard lower scores) so there is no disadvantage in sending everything.</p>
<p>By the way, there is no penalty for you using Score Choice. So if you desperately want to just send one score, you could.</p>
<p>Thank you so much! That makes me feel a lot better</p>
<p>You know, I just got an email from the UCs the other day that claimed Score Choice delays processing of the score report at the UC application processing service. Not sure if the UCs are just trying to scare all of the scores out of the applicants :p</p>