<p>Is Stanford Okay with this? What I really mean is, if I totally Bomb it the first time( In two weeks) and do decent the second time( I want a 2170 a least) will they care all that much? They aren't doing the College Board score report system, so I'm just wondering.</p>
<p>You know, you could just circumvent this entire problem by studying really hard and getting a 2170 the first time… : )
2 times shouldn’t be too big of a deal. it’s when you start taking it 3, 4, or even 5 times that a red flag goes up. I had a URM friend who made almost all A’s, did lots of community service, and was very involved in kendo, who got rejected EA. His problem? He took the SAT reasoning test 5 TIMES. 5 freaking times. So don’t do that. Stanford doesn’t want people who are overly concerned with standardized testing.
But, like I said, 2 times should be okay. Just don’t bomb the SAT. They won’t like it if they see that you got something like a 1900 the first time. What is your definition of “bombing” the test?</p>
<p>1900 still seems pretty decent to me. it means you got at least 633 in everything and if you got lower you got higher in something else.</p>
<p>1900 is not anywhere close to “decent” where Stanford is concerned. If you apply to Stanford with a 1900 SAT, you better have an application that is incredible in every other regard…</p>
<p>Plus, you can’t get a 633 on a section of the SAT. The scores go by tens (e.g. 650, 730, 470, 800).</p>
<p>Oh Stanford. Yeah my class valedictorian had a 2400 and a 4.0 unweighted GPA and got rejected from Stanford :D</p>
<p>He got in at Upenn though.</p>
<p>Will it really matter? I’m just a sophomore taking the SAT, will it really be looked down upon if I get like a low score, such as 1780, even if I retake it after doing a lot more studying and get 2200+(Not likely to happen but I can’t speak a year ahead)</p>
<p>I got waitlisted with only a 1920 superscored SAT and I only took it twice. (I used my ACT score though which was only a little better.) Don’t think it’s an automatic rejection for one bad factor.</p>
<p>I am also taking my ACT this year too, Ill skip it if it will damage chances pretty badly if I score adversely on it.
Adversely to ME in the ACT and SAT are</p>
<p>SAT: Less than 2000.
ACT:Less than 30.</p>
<p>To summarize, I’m taking the ACT and the SAT this year and taking both again at the end of junior year( 2x MAX) is this okay? To screw up the first time and do real well the second time. Will it have a huge effect on admissions, to have one bad and one good? I need to know for sure before I go off and screw stuff up.</p>
<p>Anyone know? Scared******</p>
<p>I disagree with soxfan2048 to some extent, as admission to Stanford is super-competitive so it’s impossible to know if you will or will not get in, and even for URMs with amazing stats, commitments, and whatnot there are no guarantees; you can’t really single out the fact that he took SATs 5 times. </p>
<p>I’m, you do not get your SATs averaged if you take more than three times. Although I couldn’t find official info on this issue on Stanford’s website, most of the adm. officers of top schools said they do not mind how many times you take it, as they superscore, and anyway someone could’ve taken 10 practice tests and one real SAT getting higher official score, while someone else could’ve had no opportunities to prepare and took it ‘cold’ 4 times, and got a considerably lower score than the guy who, ‘in general’, took it 11 times. As I said, I do not have any official stuff from Stanford to support this, but I think all top schools treat this same way, especially since now you don’t need to send all of your score reports anyway. On average, I think, students take SAT 3 times. Just don’t take it 10 :)</p>
<p>I know they aren’t averaged but soxfans’ post worried me, I’m really just worried about the first score cause I KNOW itll be bad, since I’ve never practiced or anything, being looked down upon by the admin. So they only look at the latest one you took? I mean…if I got a 1850, then in junior year I got a 2300+(yeah right) will the 1850 play any role in the admin?</p>
<p>Well, now that I see that you’re a sophomore, my advice is simply just to chill out, man! You don’t need to be taking the SAT and ACT until fall of junior year AT THE VERY EARLIEST. I know they say you’ve already learned everything you need to know to do well on the SAT, but I took my SAT in fall of junior year and my ACT in spring of junior year, and I did much better on the ACT. (Although I did well on both! lol)</p>
<p>Alone- my post still has merit though. All I’m saying is that, if you have a terrible SAT score, and the rest of your app isn’t great, you won’t get in. That’s undeniable.</p>
<p>Already paid for, thats why I’m in such urgent need of advice. lol. Should I? will it crash my future to have one bad, and one good? of both ACT and SAT?</p>
<p>If you got an 1850 the first time and 2300+ the second, the 1850 would not hurt your admission. If anything, it would help!! As long as they see progress in your scores. However, it would be a completely different story if you got the 2300 first then the 1850 second.</p>
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Yea, I was talking about the 5 times taking part – I am not sure if it will hurt the chances, especially with collegeboard’s new score choice policy.</p>
<p>Stuntin, it wouldn’t really be a completely different story because 1) you can select which scores to send 2) adm. office states that they look only on highest scores anyway, and they understand that you may have had a bad day or whatever. I am not sure about Stanford, but at some universities committees literally look only on your highest scores – they don’t even get to see the others.</p>
<p>Stanford is one of only 3 colleges that have decided that they will not accept the score choice policy; you can look it up. They think score choice gives an advantage to rich kids, who can hire tutors and pay to take the test 5 or 6 times until they get a satisfactory score. So, if you apply to Stanford, then they see all of your test scores.
Like I said before, taking it that many times will only reflect badly on your application. But 2 or so times shouldn’t hurt, as long as you clearly show an upward trend.</p>
<p>Oh ok then. If they do think that the number of times you take it matters, then prepare via practice tests in advance and take the official ones 2-3 times.</p>
<p>That’s good advice. Knock back as many practice tests as you can just so you won’t be surprised by what’s coming at you when the real test comes. Buy the Princeton Review SAT prep book. I bought it before taking mine, and it had some math speed strategies that helped me work much faster/efficiently.</p>
<p>taking it 3 times or less is fine</p>
<p>took the SAT 3 times, first time got 1920 and my best combined score was 2010. Got into Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth and even Caltech (Caltech has highest SAT scores in the nation BTW), even though I am an international asking for aid. Not bragging, just saying that you should not be over-concerned about your SAT.</p>