<p>I took the SAT French w/ Listening and Chemistry.</p>
<p>In June I took Math II (800), Chemistry (740 - only 76th percentile) and US History (740).</p>
<p>I do not feel confident about the test I took today (Nov.). I think I got 500-600 on French and my score for Chem should be 700-800. On my common app I said that I was awaiting my scores for French and Chem and I have already sent my scores to Cornell...</p>
<p>Will my bad French score hurt me?</p>
<p>I personally cancelled my scores in October because I knew they weren’t going to be 700+, and most schools I’m applying to don’t use score choice. Unless there’s a strong chance of you getting close to 800 in Chem, I might suggest to cancel. If your Chem increase is only by 10 or 20, it’s probably not worth it. Just my opinion though…</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>Anyone else have input?</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>If you’ve learned normal distribution, you should be able to figure out that even a 10 or 20 point increase can substantially boost your national percentile. My 800 chemistry correlated to 93%ile and a 740 is 76%ile, so by plugging in the formula for normal distribution and doing a little integration, you can calculate the interval and thereby figure out exactly what percentile a 750 or 760 correlates to. But it’s not worth the trouble.</p>
<p>On-topic:
I’m not sure about different schools’ subject test score policies, but if you can use score choice, then just don’t send your worst scores. Cancel if you must, though. I definitely wouldn’t want a 500-600 score sitting around on my CB account :P</p>
<p>If you’re looking at cornell you should definitely be serious about cancelling. Unless it’s in the high 600’s that is; then it might not hurt you. But 500’s- low 600’s would be awful for a potential Cornell applicant IMO.</p>
<p>Well it’s too late to cancel now. =(</p>
<p>Will colleges look only at my highest 2/3 scores or will they take into account all my scores?</p>
<p>I believe most, if not all, colleges claim to only look at your highest two. It is really uncertain whether or not your other, lower, scores have any effect on your admission. I doubt that they do… if they see a perfectly worthy applicant and then see that they had one bad subject test (which is not of the required two), I doubt they would just reject them there.</p>
<p>I emailed Cornell and I’m relieved to find out that it only selects my two highest scores.</p>