<p>Hey, hey, not necessarily. Don't be so hard on yourself.</p>
<p>The way colleges look at your SAT is this way:
First time around let's say you had 700 verbal, 600 math, 700 writing, for a total of 2000. (Just to keep the numbers easy.)
Second time you got 600 verbal, 700 math, 600 writing, for a total of 1900.</p>
<p>Your prospective college will look at your highest scores PER SECTION, not composite. They'll take the 700 verbal, 700 math, and 700 writing and look at those. That's why there's an advantage to taking the SAT more than once.</p>
<p>is it true that Colleges can't see the individual scores sent by CollegeBoard.com?</p>
<p>I was told by some students at my school that when you send your score, collegeboard.com immediately sorts out your best COMPOSITE score overall... so the colleges won't be able to see the rest.</p>
<p>"Your prospective college will look at your highest scores PER SECTION, not composite. They'll take the 700 verbal, 700 math, and 700 writing and look at those. That's why there's an advantage to taking the SAT more than once."</p>
<p>This is NOT "NECESSARILY" true. Although some colleges do this, other colleges do not. For instance, I know that Penn State main campus does not do this and I'm pretty positive that Harvard, Yale, and other prestigious colleges do not either (If they do, they'll have too many perfect scorers).</p>
<p>Also, I think I read from collegeboard that they send your all scores.</p>