taking sat 5 times = hurt admission chances?

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<p>I am aiming to get a near-perfect or perfect score on the SAT. My first time scores are the following:</p>

<p>M-770
CR-630
W-690</p>

<p>Could taking the SAT 5 times potentially look bad?</p>

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<p>Hang on - why are you planning a 5th test when you only just did your first?</p>

<p>But either way, 5 times is too many.</p>

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<p>is 4 fine?</p>

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<p>Agreed. three is reasonable… 4 is max.</p>

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<p>Hang on, answer the question: why are you planning on taking the test 5 times when you’ve only taken it once so far?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/864414-sat-scores-sent-yale.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/864414-sat-scores-sent-yale.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Brenzel said that multiple test sittings won’t be positive or negative but they instituted their no super score policy to directly speak to people like you, saints. They don’t want their applicants to be test taking addicts but to rather spend their time on worthier pursuits. A 4th or 5th SAT test would, IMHO, be too much. I wouldn’t let my kids do something like that.</p>

<p>I think that you, frankly, are placing too much emphasis on the score.</p>

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<p>well, i already signed up to take it in March again. I’m hoping to get at least a 700 on both CR and W and also an 800 in Math.</p>

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<p>If you are talking about applying to Yale, I think Yale is looking for students who want to learn and who want to accomplish things in the real world, and neither quality is consistent with being someone who wants to take the SAT I test repeatedly. You can’t take it five times without communicating somehow that you are the sort of person who would take it five times, and that’s not something you want to communicate, even if you got a little better each time.</p>

<p>That said, as I understand it although Yale asks that you send it all of your SAT scores, in fact Yale has no way of enforcing that. You can ask College Board to send only one test’s worth, or two, or three, and nothing will alert Yale that there were other test sessions where you took the test but didn’t send it the scores. Watch out for your high school transcript, though, which may have all the test information on it. And no comment on the morality of not complying with Yale’s request for information.</p>

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<p>i think you should just study before your retake. five times definitely seems like overkill–maybe take the test twice and try the ACT. maximum, you should have three sittings of the SAT. otherwise you look a bit test-crazy.</p>

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<p>Wait, Yale has no superscoring policy?</p>

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<p>^ No score choice, not no super score. Whoever initially posted that mistook the two. In a section of the FAQ on Yale’s admissions website, it explicitly states that only the best scores are considered.</p>

<p>Also, can we let this thread die now?</p>