<p>could taking the SAT a total of 5 times possibly hurt my admission, even if I eventually got a near-perfect or even perfect score? My first-time results are the following:
M-770
CR-630
W-690</p>
<p>Does Princeton superscore?</p>
<p>Score Choice is, especially, your friend.</p>
<p>what about at school that don’t acknowledge score choice, like Yale and Stanford?</p>
<p>“acknowledge” is probably not the right word; they simply say not to do it. If, however, you do use Score Choice, it is possible that the colleges will not even know. (This is not completely clear, but all signs seem to indicate that colleges have no way of knowing when Score Choice is used; they rely on applicants’ integrity.) </p>
<p>If you do not use Score Choice, five times may look obsessive.</p>
<p>sorry for bumping </p>
<p>would this still hurt you if the first two times were not during high school?</p>
<p>Non-high-school attempts are generally omitted from Score Reports unless one specifically requests that they be shown.</p>
<p>Colleges officially claim that the # of SAT tests doesn’t affect your chances at all, but it’s very possible that it could slightly. That’s why Score Choice is there, which is one thing I should have done on my applications.</p>
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<p>Not all of them claim this. Yale, for example, says that knowing the number of times the test was taken is helpful.</p>
<p>SAT scores before high school may have been excised from the CB records. They do not keep scores for test-takers below around age 12 for more than about a year.
Some schools will know how many times you took the SAT, some will not. I think it is reasonable to assume that those that choose to know - aka those that ask that you send all scores do so for a reason.</p>
<p>By all means, use score choice if you plan on taking the SAT more than 3 times. I was in the exact same situation [took it every year since 7th grade or something] but I wasn’t smart and didn’t use score choice. I’m kicking myself for it now, because even though I finally got a really good score this year after several tries, I’m pretty sure that the score will be outweighed by the number of times I took the test.
score choice is your friend :]</p>
<p>I hope that it doesn’t take 5 tries to raise your score. I’d say 3 max. I know Harvard says something about not taking it too many times.</p>
<p>5 time is quite a lot and I doubt really raised your scores that much. I mean SAT is important but not that important after you bounce over 2200’s or so.</p>
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Why do you have to share this on a thread that’s more than three years old?
And I wouldn’t suggest retaking a 2360.</p>
<p>“I got a 2360 on my fifth attempt and am aiming for 2400 on my sixth attempt. Outside activities? Of course, I have many outside activities where I contribute to and influence my community and my school. Why would you even ask?”</p>
<p>HP: if you think you’ll impress someone with a 2400 versus make them say: “Eieww” about you as a lifeless test-wonk, go for it. But since you’re on the Princeton forum, perhaps you should use some of your 2360 knowledge to mine Princeton’s webpages to see what THEY value.</p>
<p>(Hint: a 2400 isn’t it)</p>
<p>Jeff Brenzel of Yale said:
“At the same time, we are not particularly drawn to one-dimensional students who have made their sole or primary objective in life amassing the largest number of honors or AP courses conceivable, accompanied by multiple efforts to achieve the world’s highest test scores.”</p>
<p><a href=“Q. and A.: College Admissions - The New York Times”>Q. and A.: College Admissions - The New York Times;
<p>Do with this what you want.</p>