<p>Does stanford look at your best SAT score during one sitting? OR do they look at your best individual scores ex: best math score from one day and best reading score from the last time you took it?
Okay i think that makes sense. Thanx.</p>
<p>I'm wondering about this too. I'm applying to Stanford and I have a 2250 in one sitting but a 2300 combined. That's a pretty big difference to me.</p>
<p>Best combined.</p>
<p>yay!
umm..50 pts is really not that big of a difference...
the reason i waz so curious is cause i got a really high score in math and bad scorez in verbal...but i waz afraid to retake it cause i figured my englihs would go up while my math would go down...so overall no difference.</p>
<p>do they also take the best combined from the Old and New SAt's? Harvard is doing that.</p>
<p>Yes. New and old both count.</p>
<p>They officially look at top math and top verbal (or whatever it's called now) and top writing.
Keep in mind that it's not like they can just block at all the other scores from their minds; a low score somewhere isn't gonna help.</p>
<p>I'd say ignore the low score. I went up about 200 points and I still got in. You've still got a second shot. (Grant it, that first test was a really freak thing. My SAT II scores were more along the lines of my SAT I retest.) But don't be one of those people who takes it 4 times to go from a 1480 to a 1500. They honestly don't care.</p>