<p>I just got a 42.25 I'm pretty sure, (4 omit and 3 wrong FOR SURE).</p>
<p>This is the first and only SAT Subject Test I've taken and I wanted an 800 really badly.</p>
<p>I'm considering canceling my score because I think I got a 790 or 780 or something.</p>
<p>Should I cancel?</p>
<p>what grade are you in?</p>
<p>I’m a junior in Precalc H with an A in the class.</p>
<p>I can take this in October along with Lit or something because I need 2.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I’m retaking this anyways if I cancel or not. So should i have a 780/790 on my thing or just cancel it?</p>
<p>780-790 is decent. 80 something percentile? I would keep it and retake it in October. My sister got a 680 the first time but DIDNT CANCEL. then she got an 800 so i don’t think it really matters especially since you already got a high 700s</p>
<p>If you’re aiming for an MIT/Caltech-type engineering school and know you can pull off an 800 in October, then cancel it. If not, don’t cancel.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t get the point of cancelling especially if you think you got 780+…</p>
<p>Ok say you get a 790 or 780. Then if you really, really want you can retake it but theres no point. (Well actually I retook a Math 2 790 but that was cause I was taking bio m that day but then never bothered studying for it so I replaced it…)</p>
<p>And who knows maybe you got an 800.</p>
<p>Yeah but then the curve would have to drop by 2 points to a 42… and I might have gotten one of the easy questions that no one ever discusses wrong.</p>
<p>I think I should cancel because I can get an 800 in October</p>
<p>If you know you can get an 800 in October and if you are willing to take the $30ish hit from this test, then cancel it.</p>
<p>I’m confused…
Why do you people all consider cancelling scores if you did poorly?</p>
<p>Can’t you select which scores you send to colleges if you take a certain test twice?</p>
<p>liv4, not all colleges accept score choice, so you have to be careful. </p>
<p>And to the OP, seriously? Cancelling a 780? Even if that was a bad score, just keep it and retake it. You don’t know how bad you could do the second time. What if you completely bomb it out of chance, and then you don’t have that 780? </p>
<p>I’m sure no college will penalize you for being 20 points off a perfect score, if you retake it and get an 800.</p>
<p>Can you give me some examples of schools that don’t?</p>
<p>Do most?</p>
<p>^Off the top of my head, Stanford and Yale. Though I’m not too sure on those either; I haven’t committed the score-choice policies of the top schools to memory yet. :P</p>
<p>Google “SAT score choice policy.” I know there’s a giant PDF document that lists the superscore/score choice policies of pretty much every accredited institution in the US.</p>