<p>I took the sat in January of my freshman year and got a 2040, then again in November of my junior year(now) and got a 2240.
790 cr, 690 math (ick), 760 reading.
I'm signed up to take the ACT in December, but I don't know how I'll do.</p>
<p>Basically, should I try to get my math higher and risk lowering everything else, or just leave it? Will top colleges care much between a 2240 and say a 2270?</p>
<p>I would in order to round out your score and then apply to schools that superscore or use score choice</p>
<p>30 points isn’t going to really make that much of a difference…</p>
<p>If you think you can bring up your math by 60 to bring it to a nice 2300, I wouldn’t retake it. A 2270 is nice, but I don’t think it’s worth the time, money, and effort.</p>
<p>I would try to get more than 30 points better on math (I know I could get. 750), but the problem is that it’s random like how hard the math is going to be (or at least it seems like that… So I don’t know</p>
<p>Does a 2300 really up my chances at selective colleges by much? People with 2100s get in too…</p>
<p>Test scores aren’t everything, I don’t think they would reject you just because you didn’t score 10 points higher on the math. If they reject you, it’s because your ECs and everything else weren’t sufficient.</p>
<p>I scored 2200 at the end of my sophomore year (I’m graduating a year early), and I’m not retaking because I decided to focus on other aspects of my application.</p>
<p>I think they would view a 2240 in one sitting better than a 2270 superscored, anyway.</p>
<p>That’s what I was hoping, bregle… I do a lot of volunteer work, have done college classes (anthropology) and programs at University if Washington (journalism, film)… Hopefully this and my other ECs will help</p>
<p>Give yourself a year until the next retake. That way, you’ll know which colleges you’re applying to, and whether they care if you get above a 2240, and you’ll have had another year of math/english and maybe more experience with AP’s and SAT II’s.</p>
<p>I would take it once more to see if you can get over 700. Although a 2240 and a 2270 has not much of a difference at all, 700 is that magic number that colleges like to see their applicants get over.</p>
<p>If you don’t take it again, however, I wouldn’t be too worried because you have a 1480 (critical reading+math) which is well above the magic number (1400) and a 2240 is an amazing score. So really its up to whether you want to try to get 700 or better in math.</p>
<p>And remember, most colleges superscore so you wouldn’t be risking lowering everything else, technically, because most colleges would take your best scores anyways.</p>
<p>i dont get how people get 750+ cr and writing, but don’t manage to get an 800 in math…math’s like legit the easiest section on the SAT;it’s all simple algebra…
i got a 2340, but might retake it to bump my CR from 740 to an 800.</p>
<p>Thanks lichen2347 for your great insight</p>
<p>@Whatagoodlife thanks actually thats really helpful! I know I can do better on math because I’m in AP Calc. I think I was just unlucky. Im still not sure if I want to retake though , even if it does up my score. Sat is definitely not all colleges look at and I think my ECs matter more than being obsessed with a test…</p>
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<p>I don’t believe there’s anything “magic” about 700 (or about 2300), but I do agree that 700 is more than 10 points better than 690. Here’s why. In their common data sets, colleges and universities report the standardized test scores of their current freshman class. But they don’t report averages or individual scores; they report scores in bands. They say that x% scored 750+, y% scored 700-740, z% scored 650-690, and so on. So in the common data set, a 690 looks just like a 650, but a 700 looks just like a 740.</p>
<p>Why does this matter? Because the information from common data sets then ends up aggregated in places like the College Board web site, or College Confidential’s college search, where thousands and thousands of people see it.</p>
<p>I’m not usually a fan of retaking the SAT after you’ve already gotten a really good score, but in this case, I do think there might be a point to it.</p>
<p>Its definitely up to you whether you decide to take the SAT again but as Sikorsky said, colleges do look at that range and although a 690 is close to a 700, it isn’t quite there :(</p>
<p>(By the way, I know the feeling… I got a 690 cr on the SAT and a 690 on SAT II bio)</p>
<p>My son just got a 2340. It was his first ime. He got an 800 on the math and 800 on the writing but only got a 740 on the CR. Should he re-take?</p>
<p>no that would just be a waste of time and it would not increase his chances even if he scored higher next time. it could even work out worse next time and that wouldn’t be too good if his top choices didn’t use scorechoice.</p>
<p>worriedmom15 - A) no. B) your core audience in this forum are high school students.</p>
<p>If the OP’s still around, the SAT isn’t viewed as a single number, it’s viewed as three distinct scores. All 2240’s are not created equal and the more lopsided they are the less meaningful the number. If your CR and M were split evenly, no problem, but they are not and that 690 may indeed cause you a problem at more competitive universities. Again, don’t look at the total number because the admissions representative aren’t. Worry about individual section scores.</p>
<p>I retook my 2250 because my CR and M was stupidly low. I at least wanted to break the 1500/1600 mark.</p>
<p>720M
730CR
800 W.</p>
<p>I retook even though I was 100% my Writing would drop, and I did but only by 10pts.</p>
<p>770CR
780M
790W</p>
<p>2340.
90+ increase total and and broke the 1500 mark. It all really depend on if you’re really sure you can do much better in one of the section. Tbh, if I had gotten 750/750/750 (still 2250) I probably wouldn’t retake.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! I think I might retake, depending on how I dd on the ACT. and worriedmom, PLEASE make your own thread next time, don’t jack.</p>
<p>ALSO, is the math score less important if I’m definitely going into the humanities?</p>