<p>Lots of you guys have been coming on here asking about retaking already-high scores. But no matter what a person believes about the whole "2300 vs. 2400" question, it is nearly impossible for him or her to answer this question well without getting some additional information from you guys. :) </p>
<p>I am going to ask you guys to change the way you post these questions <em>by giving us more background</em>. </p>
<p>If you want some good advice about retaking, can you answer at least one or two (and preferably all three) of the following questions?:</p>
<p>1) What are your SAT II scores?
2) What would you have to sacrifice, timewise, in order to retake? (Are you supposed to be preparing for other exams? Are you really busy with ECs that you would have to give up or cut back on? Or are you finished with APs/SAT IIs and basically relaxing over the summer?)
3) Did you prepare a lot for your earlier SAT, the one you are thinking of retaking, or not?</p>
<p>In my opinion, those additional questions are listed by order of importance, but others might disagree with me. </p>
<p>I do think I can personally guarantee that you would get much better, much more useful advice from all the experts on this forum if you answered these other questions when you posted.</p>
<p>I also think that if the next small handful of you added this information to your "should I retake" posts, you could probably start a trend, and then everybody who came after you would do the same thing and all of you would get more helpful feedback.</p>
<p>The idea is that we can tell you specifically that no, you shouldn't retake your SAT Is because you really really have to raise that 610 SAT II score instead. Or that you have such an awesome opportunity with your ECs that you should do that instead of retaking. Or that, since you clearly have some extra time, and since you didn't prepare much the first time around, you might as well put in a few hours and go for the gold. Or whatever we happen to think about your specific situation.</p>