<p>Sat registration ends very soon and I'm unsure whether to take for a fourth time. I know I will improve to some degree. Specifically for UCs, will they frown on this? One of my SATs was wasted because I was extremely sick and should've canceled the score ... I have a 1980 right now and aiming for UCLA or berkeley</p>
<p>Any advice I’ve ever seen from college admissions says not to do this. They say that taking the SAT a second time can produce significant gains, but taking it after that almost never produces a score increase that is significant enough to change an admissions decision.<br>
In other words, your score may go up, but it’s very unlikely to go up enough to make a difference in where you get accepted. Your time is better spent on the other parts of your application, and on looking for some really good match & safety options to apply to along with your reach schools.</p>
<p>"If you’re applying for admission to the fall term, be sure to take your admissions tests no later than December of your senior year preferably earlier to ensure that your application receives prompt and full consideration. It is unlikely that scores from tests taken after our December deadline will arrive in our office in time for our review process. "
[University</a> of California - The examination requirement](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html]University”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html)</p>
<p>What is you UC GPA?</p>
<p>My UC GPA is around 4.37 uncapped. I looked on the web and a site says that it doesn’t matter to the UC Schools how many times the test is taken, can anyone verify this?</p>
<p>I think 3 is enough.</p>
<p>Is the difference between taking three and four that large? I feel like I can score higher if I took it tomorrow and not to mention I have a week of thanksgiving to study for it</p>
<p>To me it is. But, to me it also takes much longer than 1 week of studying. People commonly spend months preparing for this test… Also, many have told me that schools actually start averaging scores after 3 tests (which i dont understand when you can choose to send certain scores, but then again idk). Just something to think about.</p>
<p>I think it is a waste of time, but if it will make **you **feel better then just do it. No regrets that way.</p>
<p>Yeah one week isn’t going to be enough to raise it drastically. The people that improve their scores by great margins practice long-term. You can’t possibly cram enough practice into one week and it’s the long-term practice that shows the best results. Just let it go and hope for the best.</p>
<p>I suggest taking it if you think that you might do better. The college admissions people are not saying that it is bad to take it again or that you shouldn’t take it–they are saying that the data shows that most people (this is most, not all–if you feel you could go up, you likely will!) do not go up much more after taking it twice. As some others have said, you need to weigh the pros and the cons. If you need to study many, many hours for it and that time is needed for college essays or keeping school grades up, then it is not worth it. On the other hand, if you have the time, I would take it. There is Score Choice (unless your college is one of the small list that does not let you do Score Choice), so if you bomb it this next sitting, you don’t have to send it and the colleges will never see that you even took it. However, sounds like you are pretty sure you will do better --so TAKE IT!! My son took the ACT 3 times: 32, 34,34. Did not go up on 3rd in composite, but he did move math up to 36 and brought the superscore up to 35 on that 3rd sitting, so he was glad that he did it. He did the SAT twice and jumped 100 pts and moved into the 2300+ superscore range, so he was VERY glad that he repeated it. I should add that he did study between every sitting, usually around 7 or 8 full-length (3 hr) practice tests.</p>
<p>Go ahead take the test again. Good luck!</p>