<p>So from what I understand, transfer applicants can still take the SAT/SAT IIs during college?</p>
<p>Do colleges take into account that college students should score higher? (and therefore, something like a 2350 taken as a college student is not as impressive?)</p>
<p>So let me think this through.</p>
<p>You’re a junior who has taken the SATs a certain amount of times already, you have a full year next year in which you can take them again 7 times if you wish to do so, and you’re considering taking them during college?</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you shouldn’t but I’d think that that’s a bit inordinate…</p>
<p>Furthermore, why should college students score better? Is there a physiological advantage that comes with age?</p>
<p>If so, do they like junior scores more than they do senior scores?</p>
<p>I mean, I’d bet that the majority of 2400ers are juniors. I could be wrong though; I’m just too lazy to look it up, if such a statistic were published at all.</p>
<p>Whether or not SAT and/or SAT II scores are required by the college to which you’re applying as a transfer student should be the factor that should drive your decision to submit. Many colleges don’t have such a requirement, and when they do it’s for freshman year transfers – either for freshman year or sophomore year. You would need to check college by college.</p>
<p>My sense is that taking the tests and submitting the scores cheapens your application. You shouldn’t be trying to be compared to high school students. Best is if your college transcript and recommendations carry the predominant weight in making you a compelling transfer candidate.</p>
<p>Regarding whether 2350 is less of a great score as you grow older, I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t change. It is always a great score.</p>
<p>Well I guess college students are more mature so I would expect college students (in general) to score better.</p>
<p>Kinda like how Seniors generally do better than Juniors.</p>
<p>And I’m just wondering :P</p>
<p>More mature how?</p>
<p>It’s not like a student would struggle struggle struggle struggle then boom ace the SAT’s when he/she is 19, as if age made the only difference.</p>
<p>I cannot see an aspect of the SAT where there would exist a physiological barrier/cap for HS Juniors and not for college students. Some HS students’ vocabs are more extensive than their collegiate counterparts; some are better at SAT math; some have tighter grasps of grammar. The reverse of all of those are also true but as a whole, one group is not better or worse in any way.</p>
<p>But if you mean college students might score better because they have spent the last 9 years of their lives studying for this thing whereas HS juniors could have only had 7 (assuming both started at age 10, which is extremely early as it is), then yes, I suppose college students would do better.</p>
<p>Yes I know what you’re saying but you’re comparing two different people.</p>
<p>What I’m saying is that, generally, a person will score higher in college than that same person would in high school. I mean, as you grow up, you’re vocab skills may get better, you may get better at reading (maybe from reading a lot of high level material in college), things like that.</p>
<p>personally, I think the transfer acceptances are those who actually would’ve made there fresh out of high school if they applied anyway.
I for one got 2350 in my HS Junior year, and Im reusing that score for transfer app this year too =D
FYI, I have retaken SAT few months ago to see if I would do any better, but nah… still the same… =P so I just opted out reporting that one…</p>