<p>For those who don't know, a superscore is if you had multiple test dates, then taking the best score from each section and combining them into one score.
I know for people like me a superscore can make a big difference (100 points on the SAT for me), and it might give some people hope. I was looking around on this site to see if there was some sort of list that said whether a school superscored or not. It's too late for me (except to assuage my fears), but perhaps upcoming students would like to know if they are in a certain range for a school based on their superscore.
(heads up, I definitely copied the list below, it's not my own work!)
So copy and paste the list to add, just a simple yes or no suffices.</p>
<p>Amherst:
American:
Bard:
Barnard:
Boston College:
Boston University:
Bowdoin College:
Brandeis University:
Brown:
Bryn Mawr:
Bucknell:
Caltech:
Carleton College:
Carnegie Mellon:
Case Western:
University of Chicago:
Colgate:
Colorado College:
Columbia:
Cornell:
Dartmouth:
Davidson:
Duke:
Elon:
Emory:
Florida State University:
Furman:
Georgetown:
George Washington:
Grinnell:
Hampshire:
Harvard:
Harvey Mudd:
Haverford:
Johns Hopkins:
Kenyon:
Macalester:
Middlebury:
MIT:
Mount Holyoke:
Northeastern:
Northwestern:
Notre Dame:
NYU:
Oberlin:
Occidental:
Pomona:
Princeton:
Reed:
Rice:
Skidmore:
Smith:
Stanford:
Swarthmore:
Tufts:
UCB:
UCLA:
UCSB:
UCSC:
UCSD:
UGA:
UMichigan:
UNC:
UPenn:Yes
URichmond:
USC:
UWisconsin:
UVA:
Vanderbilt:
Vassar:
Villanova:
Wake Forest:
Washington University in St. Louis:
Wellesley:
Wesleyan:
William & Mary:
Williams:
Yale:</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, generally privates do superscore (I haven’t found one that doesn’t); generally publics don’t (though I’ve heard that UVA does).</p>
<p>I went to a Harvard info meeting, and they told me they just take the best test date, no superscoring. Were they just messing with my head?
But if this is true, then I’m so happy. My test scores just got a whole lot better.</p>
<p>“If you submit more than one set of scores for any of the required tests, the Admissions Committee considers only your best scores—even if your strongest SAT Subject Tests or portions of the SAT Reasoning Test were taken on different dates.”</p>
<p>Well, I am one extremely happy camper. Just a quick question I guess: Do they superscore ACTs (your link isn’t opening for some reason)?
It was an info meeting in my town, it was like a tour of five colleges (U Penn, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, and Georgetown, I think). I remember that the Harvard person was a lady with dark hair, and she seemed to be pretty high up. So it’s extremely possible I either misheard or heard it from a different school.</p>
<p>I think the usual answer from Harvard is “We consider your best scores,” an answer I have heard four times in a row from Harvard admission officers, at an Exploring College Options meeting like the one you attended, and then at another (with a different admission officer) and then at a college fair, and then at Harvard itself just one month ago. It’s only in the viewbook that the detail of superscoring really comes out plainly. The viewbook has made the issue of superscoring (and harmlessness of repeating SAT Subject Tests) clear for several years.</p>