<p>Im thinking about transfer admissions. Do colleges want to see college freshman retaking the SAT? </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I want to know too.</p>
<p>i don't know. but since i did so bad when i took it 2 years ago, i retook it just hours ago. i hope i'd do well this time.</p>
<p>hmm, do u mean transferring while in college?
cuz im in CCC right now, applied to transfer to UC, asked nothign about test scores, its all about grades</p>
<p>check with your schools, some schools dont even ask for it.</p>
<p>Test scores are really insignificant from what I've gathered. Unless you did horribly, there's no reason to retake it.</p>
<p>i did 540v+800m=1340
is that horrible?</p>
<p>If you will have two years when you transfer, I think they either not ask for them or they don't care about them.</p>
<p>but i'm freshman with a year of AP credits
so i'm going to apply for fall 2005 though i only has one sem (this sem)</p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend it. Even if you performed poorly on the SAT back in high school, you should focus on showing that you have been successful as a college student. They say that the SAT and ACT are supposed ot predict how well a student will do during the first year of college, so theoretically what you show you can do while actually in college will weigh much more heavily than how you did in high school.</p>
<p>Mr_Bungle, some colleges still require you to submit SAT (or II's) scores for transfer admission. Do you mean to say that they will weigh that less than your current college GPA? Well, I hope you're right.</p>
<p>Yes, most colleges are going to require a standardized test score for transfers, but the more college work you have completed, the less focus they will place on test scores and high school grades. If you prove that you can do well in college (and you're taking challenging courses, not billiards and basket weaving), my bet is that they will recognize that and let a less-than-stellar test score slide.
Like I said, though, the more time you spend in college, the more they are concerned about your performance there.</p>
<p>Ask yourself if you would have been able to get into this college right after high school. If not, why? If your test score would really have been the only thing standing in your way, a strong performance in your first year will probably compensate for that, because, as I said, these tests are simply designed to give colleges an idea of how you will do in your first year. If you're going to a community college, you may want to retake the test, but otherwise I'd let your actual college work do the talking.</p>