@homerdog My D and I attended a virtual Tulane session the other day and I was surprised to learn that the school knows if you send in multiple scores for a super score. I thought maybe someone in an admin capacity just forwarded the superscored score on to admissions. They made a point of mentioning a one time high score as being impressive (though, if you don’t have to send in all scores, how do they know that person didn’t take it before?).
Re, self-study vs paid tutor, I believe there’s a difference. Our experiment with S21 “self-studying” (he took a few practice SATs) vs our S18 and D 21 who took a popular private tutor course in our area, ended up with all 3 getting just about the same scores, but S18 and D21 started out way lower! S21 didn’t go up. (In fact, he went down on psat, where’s the other 2 went up quite a bit). From this, I surmise good paid tutoring is extremely beneficial and some kids are naturally better test takers. S21 is not “smarter” than the other 2 kids. They’re all so different, though.