<p>1st time taking:
800 Math
800 CR
740 W (11 Essay)</p>
<p>Is it worth retaking in order to get a higher writing?
(I know that this is a pretty good score and I don't NEED to retake it, but, without downplaying my good score, should I retake it?). </p>
<p>It is very hard to think of a reason why you would want to bother retaking it.</p>
<p>No</p>
<p>obviously yes, you aren’t turning any heads with that measly score</p>
<p>740 is a very respectable score. You wouldn’t want to look like a test taking drone.</p>
<p>Oh, this site…</p>
<p>somilgo: Do you think there exists a program on this planet that would NOT accept you with a 2340 but WOULD accept you with a higher score?</p>
<p>If you do, then go ahead and spend the money and time to do so. Most other people will have a much more relaxing Saturday.</p>
<p>I got 2390 </p>
<p>60 points from a 2400. Terrible score. Try again.</p>
<p>Dear God no.</p>
<p>No wonder this site gets a lot of flak, simply because of posts like this.</p>
<p>Oh cut the kid a break. Heres your answer. Do you need to take it for admittance purposes? NO. IF you are a kid who likes to challenge themselves, and you have the disposable income, and you WANT to try to get a higher score, sure, take it again. The only thing to worry about, is if you are applying to schools that require ALL scores and your scores go down, then you have the schools questioning why your scores went down. THey may think the first score was a fluke. Choose wisely.</p>
<p>I stand by my decision for OP to retake. It’s common knowledge that u can only get into Harvard with a 2400</p>
<p>How many times have you taken it? You shouldn’t seriously consider retaking it unless it was your first time. How much did you prepare? You shouldn’t seriously consider retaking it unless you spent very little time preparing.</p>
<p>If you passed both of those tests, then it’s really up to you. A perfect score does not mean that you can get 10 points more than a 2390; it means that you can get at least 10 points more than a 2390. A perfect score implies that you have hit a ceiling. If you think that you are both capable of achieving the 2400 and that the cost of working toward it is less than the glory from achieving it, then go ahead, regardless of what anyone else tells you.</p>
<p>I ended up going to Utah State University, even tho I got a 2390 :)</p>
<p>@NASA2014 I can’t tell if you’re just joking, but in multiple other posts you’ve said that you’ve failed your biology regents multiple times, you scored a 310 on your SAT math, and you currently attend a community college. 2390? Utah State? Where did that even come from?</p>
<p>@Sesquipedalian4 OP stated that this was his or her first time taking it. Also IMO, a 2400 doesn’t necessarily always mean that a student is capable achieving more and that they’ve hit a ceiling; more than anything, it means that they got lucky. Perhaps they happened to know all of the vocabulary for one test, but if they tried to take another, they might find themselves slipping up. Perhaps they made a few vital, lucky guesses. Maybe they received slightly easier reading passages or math questions than they would have if they took the test a following month later. The June SAT of this year comes to mind in particular - I had many, many friends with varying levels of intelligence come up to me and tell me it was surprisingly okay compared to the other SATs they took. Many of them also happened to receive higher scores on that SAT than on their previous ones.</p>
<p>I’m not discrediting the achievements of those who score a 2400 or calling their scores a fluke by any means, but luck is most definitely a factor, more so than their actual intelligence most of the time.</p>
<p>My friend got in not me. I meant to say that but I was lazy you know. My SAT socre was 950</p>
<p>i hate sarcastic comments - whats the purpose of them? plus the OP does not seem to be bragging, but genuinely curious.
my opinion: its a great score (especially since you have a 1600 CR+M). if you really want to retake, then its up to you, but im 100% sure you don’t need to.</p>
<p>@Constantius Of course, there are people that get lucky and get a 2400 by a narrow margin, but part of the appeal of the 2400 is that you can’t tell who those people are. Someone who went from a 2390 to a 2400 in a month probably was pretty close to the cut-off, but there’s now way of telling that unless a school requires you to submit all of your scores (and even then, you can only guess). If the SAT included more questions that extended the range from 0 to 3600 (not that they should), the people who would get a 3600 and a 2400 are all taken from the current 2400 pile.</p>
<p>@Sesquipedalian4 So you’re saying that the only people who could potentially score a 3600 are people that would score 2400 on the current test? Or are you just saying that if you took all released scores out of 2400 and expanded the scale to out of 3600, then the only people who would score a full 3600 are people from the current 2400 (if the way I said it makes any sense at all)? </p>