<p>Do colleges see all of your SAT scores if you take it more than once, or just the highest? Also, is there a limit to how many times you can take it?</p>
<p>When you send the SAT scores, you send all of the scores for the SAT I's and the previous 5 you've taken. You also send all the scores for any SAT II's (up to 6) that you've previously taken. There is no score choice. You send them all or you send none. What colleges look at and consider is a different matter entirely.</p>
<p>You can take them as many times as you want; only the latest 6 scores will show. But there is a diminishing return on taking them too often. They're expensive, time consuming, and if you don't improve after say, 3 times, it's unlikely that you will.</p>
<p>This is somewhat related. In the space where it asks what colleges you want to send the scores to on the online registration, I put in just a few random colleges nearby. What do the colleges do with the scores and should I put different colleges every time if they receive all the scores anyway? Finally, should I send all the scores to my choice schools every time to keep them up to date, or just wait until my last SAT's to send them the scores?
I'm only a junior and taking the SAT for the first time on the 27th, so I still am figuring this stuff out (i.e. sorry about the stupid questions)</p>
<p>yeah...im also interested in chess2226's questions</p>
<p>Not stupid questions at all. </p>
<p>1) Colleges will generally "store" the scores in some way. Some may start a file on you; others may put it in a generic, "future students" file and then fish them out when they begin getting more information, like the application, transcripts, recommendations, etc. from you.</p>
<p>2) Schools only receive the scores from the tests you took before you send the scores. The 4 colleges that you put on your first test registration won't automatically get the scores for the next tests you take. They aren't automatically updated. You would have to send any future scores to those colleges again.</p>
<p>3) Many kids do wait to send their scores at all until they're done with testing, and they pay for scores to be sent to any additional schools (more than the free 4). This way they can see how they did, decide if they want to take the ACT and perhaps not send SAT scores at all, decide if they want to apply to SAT optional schools, etc. There's no need to send separate reports to "keep them up to date"; a school won't look at your file until it's complete anyway.</p>
<p>How you decide to deal with these scores is completely up to you.</p>