<p>I took the SAT I three times, along with two subject tests. I did very mediocre the on the first two tries, and then studied a lot more and my scores shot up. I took the tests from June of 2012 to November of 2013. Here's my stats, in the order I took them from earliest to most recent:</p>
<p>First: CR: 540, M: 650
Second: CR: 560, M:680
Third: CR: 700, M: 740
Math II: 760, US History: 800</p>
<p>Since Cornell looks at all your scores, should I be worried about the first two tests? On the other hand, would admissions officers look favorably on the positive trend? I'm just a bit uneasy seeing as it's the only school I'm applying to which requires applicants to submit all of their scores. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>My son sent all of this scores from three sittings. His portal only showed the highest score from each section, including the writing section, which I found surprising since Cornell states they do not consider the W scores. </p>
<p>I do not know if the Ad Coms reviewing his file know that he sat for the test three times or if they just see the highest score from each section. </p>
<p>Congrats on your significant improvement! Best of luck…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t lose sleep over it. I took it three times (and those who say three is too many for ivy leagues are quite wrong) and raised my composite from a 1900 to a 2310. The important thing is that you clearly show significant improvement with each setting- that is reason enough for adcoms to consider each one of your attempts more than the last. Plus, score choice is different from superscore- Cornell, along with the vast majority of colleges, will care only about your highest score in each section.</p>
<p>Your scores improved quite a lot, and I’d say that’s pretty much the only thing that matters.
As long as you showed improvement, there’s no reason to lose sleep over it.</p>
<p>@agreatperhaps13
Quite a lot of colleges don’t consider the Writing section.
The grading of essays is often too subjective for it to be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Even though Cornell officially doesn’t take SAT Writing into consideration, could a lower Writing score hurt admissions chances? It seems like they’d at least give it the same consideration as a subject test.</p>
<p>The writing scores are literally blacked out, so the admissions officers don’t see them.
Cornell’s not kidding when they claim that they don’t care about writing scores.</p>
<p>Dishonored—how do you know that to be true? I don’t know otherwise, but I did find it odd that Cornell listed the W score on their portal whereas another school my son applied to EA did not list the W score.</p>
<p>@Dishonored how do you know that? @CT1417 I didn’t remember seeing my writing score on my portal, so I checked my student center AP credits reports, and it was right there. I doubt they use it for admissions but they probably look at it. So a good WR score may actually help.</p>
<p>One of the schools my son is applying to in NYS doesn’t consider the SAT writing score for admission, but (according to their website) uses it for placement in freshman English.</p>
<p>One of my closest friend’s mother used to be an admissions officer at Cornell.
She said after the SAT format changed, those scores are no longer shown in the application.</p>
<p>This was around 3 years ago, so the policy might have changed.</p>
It was my highest of the three…</p>