<p>Does STanford consider superscore??</p>
<p>Yes. But not for the ACT.</p>
<p>alright thanks</p>
<p>what is superscore?</p>
<p>highest scores from each section combined</p>
<p>Apparently yes. So an SAT I retake shouldn't be a problem. I've posed this question to Stanford's admission office. </p>
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<p>I have found no indication of superscoring at Stanford. Can you specify where the "apparently yes" conclusion comes from, and what they did in response to your question that suggests the answer is YES?</p>
<p>I met Stanford admission office Julia Rose Ando in person in my state two months ago. Stanford sets a high threshold for test scores in general, but what the OP has to do is meet the threshold, and show "intellectual vitality" (Stanford's pet term for what it is looking for in students) in other ways besides.</p>
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<p>What, exactly, did she say that might answer the apparently open question of whether Stanford "superscores"? </p>
<p>This is a repeatedly asked question in the Stanford forum with (so far) no credible answer either way. If you have specific information to share, as you seem to be claiming, readers of the board would be interested to hear it.</p>
<p>Yes. Stanford uses your superscore as far as SAT scores go. They did that last year anyway.</p>
<p>either way ... stanford is going to see your official collegeboard score report and see what you got for each section each time you took the test :D</p>
<p>There have been a variety of unsourced statements about this that may or may not trace back to the admissions office.</p>
<p>There is no comment about this question (that I could find) on the admissions web site. There is an online statement from admissions dean Richard Shaw in the minutes of a faculty meeting last year, that the review of an applicant's SAT scores includes looking to see whether the scores increase and plateau, or fluctuate up and down. That's quite different from just "superscoring" the report. So it would be good to see a clear statement of Stanford's policy from an identifiable source.</p>
<p>What's the (un)official SAT threshold?</p>
<p>Stanford takes "the best scores submitted" for SAT and ACT.</p>
<p>From Stanford's FAQs in "Applying for Admission" as an Undergraduate:</p>
<p>Q: What are the average standardized test scores for admission to Stanford?</p>
<p>A: While we know that scores on standardized tests do not always accurately portray a students abilities, they still play a helpful role as one piece of an application. Every applicant to Stanford must submit either SAT Reasoning Test or ACT scores. For either test, we will look at the best scores submitted.</p>
<p>Concerning the Profile of the Fall 2006 class:</p>
<p>For the entering class of Fall 2006, 65% had SATV scores between 700-800 and 72% had SATM scores in that range. Please see the Profile of our most recently admitted freshman class, but remember that statistics cannot possibly predict your chances of admission. Our admission process goes beyond any numerical formula. Keep in mind that we have no cut-offs or targets.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the link in post #14 to the Stanford admission FAQ. One of the things that many people find hard to wrap their minds around is the idea of "holistic" admissions, that test scores are far from the only element in deciding who is admitted to Stanford. Some countries do things differently, but in the United States the most selective colleges sometimes pass over high scorers to admit students with lower scores but other desirable characteristics.</p>
<p>Thanks for the close reading of the admissions FAQ in post #14, which answers the question.</p>
<p>It also answers (yet again) another frequent question on CC, when juxtaposed with Shaw's statement about analyzing the score report: when a school has a policy of "superscoring" test results, that in no way precludes further use of the non-highest scores, and certainly does not mean operating as though the non-highest scores never existed.</p>