<p>I know this is a bit repetitive but help me out pretty please :) </p>
<p>I took the May SATs and scored a 2210 overall (760 M, 750 R, and 700W). My guidance counselor said I should retake it to raise my scores, but I have also been told that retaking it and getting a higher score would be pretty up to chance?</p>
<p>I'm applying to MIT (EA) , Duke, Stanford, Rice, and Princeton, for engineering, if that's relevant. </p>
<p>I also took a subject test yesterday (Math II) which I didn't do so well on. So I'll be taking that and chem in October or November.</p>
<p>Your score at the moment is in the competitive range for all those schools. Of course, you would benefit from achieving a higher score; but if you feel that the testing dates are better spent on Subject Tests, that’s fine. </p>
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<p>Not really. Your decision should probably be based on how you are scoring on practice tests. If you are consistently scoring 2300+, I would recommend retaking. If not, then sticking with your current score is alright.</p>
<p>I think you would be fine, especially for engineering. You still have a 1520 for the two sections that count…</p>
<p>Focus on other aspects of your application now. Anything 2200+ is VERY impressive, and the top schools could honestly care less about something as trivial as a 100 point difference on the SAT. I read a blog by one of the admissions officials at MIT where he explicitly states that he merely glances at your SAT score to get a general perspective of the type of student you are. I hardly imagine that your score would throw up a red flag or warrant a rejection. At those schools, selling the whole package is your best means of getting accepted.</p>
<p>Now, if you want to retake it for personal satisfaction, or want to score higher to hit a certain personal mark, then by all means go ahead. But if you’re concerned your score is too low for the schools you’re looking at, I assure you it isn’t.</p>
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<p>Many schools consider all three sections.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t call anything 2200+ too impressive, as most unhooked acceptees to top schools will have that. Moreover, a 100-point increase is quite significant.</p>
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<p>You are definitely a CC’er.</p>
<p>A 2210 lies comfortably in the middle 50% of test scores admitted to all of the schools you listed. At this point, it’s too late to worry about scoring higher. You don’t have to score a 2300+ to get accepted if the rest of your application is solid. Take this however you may, a 100 point increase in the 2200+ range is a difference of only about 6 or 7 questions.</p>
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<p>It is almost certainly below average among unhooked acceptees at top schools.</p>
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<p>No, actually it’s not.</p>
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<p>Of course: no score is required for admission. Nonetheless, higher scores yield higher chances – especially when the difference is 100 points.</p>
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<p>Indeed, though I would drop the word “only.”</p>
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<p>Considering we don’t know much about the OP, particularly whether or not she’s “hooked”, this point is moot until we do.</p>
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<p>Now that you mention it, her username suggests she’s a rising junior. If that’s the case, then she certainly has plenty of time to retake the test. If she’s a rising senior, however, it would be rather risky to chance a higher score in October or November, where application deadlines are near and her time could be better spent taking subject tests.</p>
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<p>At top schools, test scores are used more as a preliminary gauge of the student’s intellectual ability than a necessary criteria of admission. Bearing this in mind, a 2300 won’t do her any better than a 2210 if the rest of her application isn’t impressive. The top schools get too many 2200+ applicants as it is to weigh the SAT so heavily.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t call it a moot point, but you’re right that we do not know whether the OP is hooked.</p>
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<p>2300 yields a higher chance than 2210. MIT is the only school in the country that I know of that claims that it operates on a threshold system; and even that claim is dubious, considering that higher scores should yield higher chances and the data that the school releases belie the claim.</p>
<p>She’s in the ballpark, that much we can agree on. A higher score certainly wouldn’t hurt, but a 2210 won’t warrant an immediate rejection from the Ivies. A retake is up to her discretion at this point.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree; I attempted to indicated that much in my first post.</p>
<p>A bit beside the point, but I’m going to guess you scored in the 2300+ range, am I right?</p>
<p>Define hooked…? I’m not like super special, I haven’t like built a computer or anything. Is a hook like legacy, URM, etc.? Because I am a URM. I am also a rising senior. I think I only need two subject tests (MIT wants a math and a science). So that would leave an extra testing date.<br>
I’m getting the sentiment that I should retake it because it would raise my chances. I got two wrong in the CR and two wrong in the Math. And four wrong in Writing (hense the 700).</p>
<p>Yes, I scored 2400. Do not, however, see this as a potential source of bias; I have consistently argued to the same effect that I do now for a long time before I received that score.</p>
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<p>Yes, being a URM is a hook.</p>
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<p>Two wrong has never yielded 750.</p>
<p>Boy, to read this, you wonder that any modest-score person ever gets accepted anywhere…</p>
<p>Yeah… I’m a little worried about all the 2330s (not just that score, you know what I mean). Because mine isn’t so good in comparison I guess? And apparently tons of 2400s get rejected (I don’t mean that in a mean way!). Just that if 2400s get rejected than a 2210 would be even more dangerous, you know?</p>
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<p>Why would you wonder that? I do not want to give that impression.</p>
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<p>Well, there aren’t that many 2400ers in the first place, so there aren’t that many to be rejected. Anyhow, plenty of applicants get in with scores around 2210, and your URM status gives you an additional boost.</p>
<p>Yes, hook is URM, athletic recruit, legacy, etc. If you are an URM, then you stand a fair chance at being admitted with a 2210. However, if you feel you can score higher and are willing to put the money and time into it, then go right ahead. You will only have one opportunity though. And unless you took a subject test prior or took the ACT, Duke requires 3 subject tests.</p>
<p>Silverturtle- That makes sense. Congratulations on your 2400. It seems there are quite a few of us on CC…</p>
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<p>No, Georgetown is the only school that requires three.</p>
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<p>Thanks. Congratulations to you as well (if I have interpreted your pronoun correctly).</p>