<p>lol
some amazing scores on this thread
congrats to all of u
i hope i can pull my verbal up to a 700+ score on the New SAT
i would cry in joy if i get a 2200+ score on the new sat and psat</p>
<p>sokkermom - I absolutely agree. My sophomore year, I went to a speaker about Yale, and they said that adcoms look a lot more favorably on lower numbers of sittings. Sure, it's great if you can get a 1600 composite after trying 5 times, but it's way better if you can do it only once. That's one of the reasons I didn't retake my SAT (1510 710v/800m). Of course, I really didn't want to put the work in to make it any better because I found it wonderful just the way it was, but that's just me ;)</p>
<p>prettyfish,</p>
<p>That's intersesting that you had a college representative tell you that. I have never heard it "officially", but I think that after one or two sittings, taking the SAT again may do more harm to your application than good. My S took the same approach that you did. He took it once. He scored very well, but was actually asked by some of his friends if he was going to re-take it to try for a perfect 1600. His response: "Why?"</p>
<p>One of the viewbooks (I think it was Harvard's) put it best: taking the SAT too many times offers diminishing returns. I think that they meant not only does the rise in score grows smaller, but so does the effect it has on the adcom. Our GC recommended that students take it no more than 3 times. The only time I seriously considered taking the SAT a second time (730V 800M on my first sitting) was when someone I knew scored 1540 and started to gloat.</p>
<p>Meh. I took the test once a year for every year of high school.</p>
<p>Didn't seem to adversely affect me.</p>
<p>alphacdcd: why do you make it your mission to attempt to trash the NBER report? Your frequently repeated charge of bias is ludicrous, and frequently ridiculed. As far as no one reading it, I question whether you've really read it, based on the things you say.</p>
<p>I got 740V + 760M SATI. I would have preferred, however, to get an 800 in either subject and 700 on the other...that way, when I retake the SAT (I'm class of 2006) I only have to really focus on improving one subject. Not that I'm not happy with my score though.</p>