<p>I'm currently a junior and got a 2320 on the November SAT. I got 730 CR, 800 Math, and 790 Writing. I did well because I took a SAT prep class over the summer. Since I've only taken it once and I have a brand new Blue Book I haven't practiced in yet, I assumed I should take it again. But people are telling me otherwise. I know it's a high score, but I want to strive for a better reading score. I'd like to get into selective colleges... but I'm an Asian girl. I've heard race is somewhat of a big factor. So should I take the SAT again? Thanks :)</p>
<p>Other than the possibility of getting a lower score, you don’t have anything to lose so you might as well take it again of you’re not satisfied.</p>
<p>Your time can be spent doing much more productive things. You already have 2300+, which for us Asians is enough. Having gone through the college application myself, a 2320 vs a 2400 means no difference to HYPSM</p>
<p>I agree with frappe1. It may be true, as Oscar says, that you have little to lose (some money, and half a Saturday), you also have nothing of consequence to gain.</p>
<p>Those scores are good enough for any college or university in the country. If you don’t get into Harvard (and remember, more than 90% of applicants don’t), it won’t be because your SAT scores did you in.</p>
<p>You did great on the SAT. Congratulations! Now move on, and focus on making the rest of your college application–and the rest of your time in high school–as good as possible.</p>
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<p>Thank you all so much for responding! I don’t think I’ll take it again. I wanted to improve my reading score… But I guess 730 is good enough. However, I read a post somewhere analyzing the statistics of admittance into HYPSM: that as your score gets closer to 2400, your chances of getting in increases exponentially. Is this true? Do colleges really rely that heavily on test scores, or do they not really care if a student’s score is 2300 or 2400?</p>
<p>^ what you said is correct to a certain extent. But I assure you that those people who got scores close to 2400s didn’t spend most of their time studying for the test. They got in because they were busy doing internships, running nonprofits, taking tons of AP’s a year, and competing in national championships. </p>
<p>If HYPSM really relied that heavily on test scores, I woulda gotten in and a bunch of my friends wouldn’t. :P</p>
<p>of course not.</p>
<p>That makes sense. Thank you all for replying :)</p>
<p>I marvel on how you reach 730! I can’t even cross 570 after practicing 26 of the ‘official’ past papers. My performance are so unpredictable that i range from 470 to 570 :(.
I will admit I dnt posses a grandeur list of ‘teeth-shattering’ vocabs but at least, the passages should help me raise my scores! :’(
i am utterly speechless.</p>
<p>The old SAT Verbal 700 is equivalent to CR760. So, your 730 would be considered less than 700 in V on the classical standard. What you scored was about a 670 on the old scale.</p>
<p><a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence/sat-individual[/url]”>http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence/sat-individual</a></p>
<p>How did you do on the Writing MC?</p>
<p>I’d say do whatever makes you comfortable. If it makes you feel better for a possibility of raising your score, do it.</p>
<p>I would focus on extracurricular activities if you don’t already have enough.</p>
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<p>Where did this come from, and why is it relevant? What does it matter what yaanbear’s score would have been on a scale that hasn’t been used since she was in diapers? Will she be competing against applicants who took the SAT in 1994, before the recentering?</p>
<p>It would look bad if you did it again. Once you get a high score(but not perfect), you should leave it at that, honestly. Colleges don’t want students just attempting to get the perfect score if they already have a good one.</p>
<p>Take the 2300. At this point working scores won’t get you much anywhere. You have to prove that you are a lot smarter than these scores. Work on that GPA. Try not to get any B’s. apply to internships NOW (deadlines coming up soon). GL</p>
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<p>People have been getting into the Ivies without making 700s on all sections forever, so it is not a crucial point. However, the notion that one should score above 700 in all sections of the SAT predates 1994. I am simply pointing out that the pre 1994 old V 700 is today’s 760 on the CR. So, if one wanted to get the equivalent of a traditional 700, one would need a modern 760 on the CR. </p>
<p>It become relevant when one realizes that there can be professors and senior administrators/ adcoms who took their own SATs prior to 1994 and know that the old V 700 is 760 on the CR section. </p>
<p>Personally, I do not think it matters whether one has over a 700, but then again, personally, I also do not think it matters if one is Asian or not. However, if one feels that as an Asian one has to meet some higher standard, then one can try to meet the pre 1994 standard of 700s - a minimum at the time.</p>
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<p>Are you somehow suggesting that admissions committees will benchmark applicants against themselves when they were 18? And perhaps decide not to fill their entering classes because they can’t find enough applicants who meet a standard that’s almost twenty years old?</p>
<p>If you are, that’s every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. And if you aren’t, then why in the world are you bringing up a standard that’s as old as the OP herself?</p>
<p>Admissions committees will consider yaanbear’s application in relation to the rest of next year’s applicants. They will consider her SAT scores in comparison to the scores of other students who apply in 2013. The pre-1995 benchmarks matter just about as much as the fact that Thomas Jefferson could read and write Greek, but yaanbear can’t. (I’m assuming. Yaanbear, if you actually do read and write Greek, I apologize.)</p>
<p>Frankly, I think you just wanted to [vulgar word redacted] in her Cheerios.</p>
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<p>There is obviously something else that is bothering you about my post, because I clearly stated:</p>
<p>" People have been getting into the Ivies without making 700s on all sections forever, so it is not a crucial point. "</p>
<p>"Personally, I do not think it matters whether one has over a 700 … "</p>
<p>What bothers me about your post, perazziman, is that it did nothing whatsoever to respond to the OP’s question. All you did was tell her that her scores would have been much lower by a long out-of-date standard–a standard that will have absolutely nothing to do with college admissions in 2013-14, when she will be applying. If you had any motive for doing that other than making her feel worse about her SAT scores and her college prospects, I can’t imagine what it was.</p>
<p>yaanbear: you’re awesome lol. i just took the sat today. i hope I get a score close to yours lol. i’m just wondering. what state are you from? Please tell me you’re repping Texas as I am.</p>