<p>So I took the SAT twice, but I received the same total score both times. </p>
<p>June 1st - Reading: 610 Math: 640 Writing: 640 = 1890
October 5th - Reading: 640 Math: 690 Writing: 560 = 1890</p>
<p>I don't know which scores looks better... If it makes a difference, I'm applying to the Global Studies program.</p>
<p>If you could give your opinion I would greatly appreciate it :)</p>
<p>I thought they allowed you to super score but, it says here
[The</a> examination requirement | UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html]The”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/requirements/examination-requirement/index.html)
they look at a single date.</p>
<p>I’d send the both via college board but submit the score that favors your chosen major.</p>
<p>If you have to choose, send the second score. Reading and math are the only scores considered at a lot of schools (unlike UCSB) and from what I understand, writing is a lower “ranked” score even for schools who consider it. So, the second score’s higher reading and math make it an easy call. What was your writing score in each, that might make a difference.</p>
<p>I would send in both. Most schools frown upon score choice and they will take your best scores. My S took both SAT and ACT. Did ok on SAT but much better on the ACT. We sent in both scores so the school could make the determination.</p>
<p>Gumbymom does it SAY ‘score choice’ on it if you just send one? Or do they just get the one and not the information that it is score choice?</p>
<p>It says on the UC application website to send all scores. The school will pick the highest scores from 1 sitting. Since the total scores are the same, I see no harm in sending both.
I do not know for sure that if you send 1 score over the other this will be documented as score choice. If you go onto the College Board website, you will see all your SAT scores displayed on the same page. The default is to send all scores. If you select only specific scores, then there is a popup which explains about score choice. My sorry I cannot answer, but I did talk to UCSD admissions last year about ACT scores for my older son and they said send all scores from all sittings.</p>
<p>Thank you for responding about score choice. My own opinion would be send both, and an admissions person at Berkeley said they preferred it too – I was just trying to figure out if it was in our kids’ best interest or in the school’s best interest (so they could better deny people). They don’t require all scores (Stanford does). I would send all because it shows if nothing else you didn’t take it twenty times or something. But my son has a ‘just put the best foot forward’ bias, and I was wondering if there were an actual stigma attached to score choice. </p>
<p>I hope if it would say ‘score choice’ report on it somewhere, they would let us know.</p>