taking tests more than 3 times?

Test Preparation
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<p>I have a friend who's all worked up about the score choice usage at many schools. So many universities don't honor score choice, so everyone's required to send ALL SATs or ALL ACTs...my friend took the SAT six times :-/ her parents forced her to, it wasn't her choice. in fact, she got a 1900 her first time, which then became a 2080, 2130, 2200, 2190, 2210. See how the last few scores are all pretty much the same? She didn't know that this was to her disadvantage till now, when she saw info online saying that 3 times should be the limit. Should she send em all, send half, or what?!</p>

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<p>If she’s applying to a school that requires all tests then she should send them all.</p>

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<p>If the school requires all of them, she has to send all of them. Just hope that other parts of her application don’t make her look like a grade grubbing, OCD grind. :wink: I’ve heard adcoms say they “Might” raise an eyebrow if someone had taken the SATs more than 4 times, but really only if the rest of the application made it look like they didn’t have a better use for their Saturdays. Emphasis was really on the might.</p>

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<p>If the school requires all test scores, she MUST send all the tests she took on all dates. I wouldn’t really suggest taking it more than 3 times unless absolutely positive she could improve significantly. The more times you take it, probably less likely it will go up. Best of luck to your friend!</p>

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Collegeboard states that you don’t have to actually. They suggest you do (quote “recommend”, “encouraged”). You may be rejected if you don’t follow a school’s policy however.</p>

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<p>Send all. But more than three test scores doesn’t look good to colleges.</p>

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Not quite true. This is what CB actually says:

They do go on to say:

That’s because the contract is with the student since that family is paying. As you stated, if the college finds out the student did not send all scores they could be rejected.</p>

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<p>^Yes, basically it’s risky if you don’t send all scores for the SAT, but Collegeboard will not make you nor will they require you. It’s also a matter of integrity rather than something you must do. Before making a risky decision, you should look at your highschool transcript and just know that your scores may be on that (which can be removed). So if you send that and fail to send all scores you could potentially be rejected.</p>

<p>Most colleges look at highest subscores so should be okay even with 6 tests. I don’t think it will be that big of a deal.</p>

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<p>Its risky not to send all of them, so do send them. But it kind of sucks to be her, colleges HATE when people take it more than 3 times. Plus, if she was the type of student that would dare take it that many times, even under the force of her parents, wouldn’t she already have known not to take it more than 3 times for both practical(Her score wouldn’t improve) and subjective(colleges don’t like it) reasons? I had older cousins that took it and said colleges don’t like more than 3 times. I knew this rule when I was in 6th grade, why didn’t she?</p>