Why do some colleges require all testing to be reported?

[Zinhead]

With the exception that @ucbalumnus pointed out (trying to increase scores for automatic-for-stats $), I think that taking the test repeatedly might indicate personality issues: score grubbing, perfectionism, gaming tendencies (i.e., trying to raise one part of the SAT per test sitting), etc.

I would expect schools to pay attention to this. Everyone has an occasional bad test day, and you can’t read anything into a retest. A retest, not 7 retests. Someone retaking a test that is already above 2300 is, IMO, exhibiting behavior not indicative of good academic values.

Interesting. Along with all of the sports trophies, athletic records, drama and debate awards and other athletic and academic achievements, our HS has a wall with photographs of kids who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. The younger honors/AP kids look up to those with photos on the wall and want to emulate them. Is that score grubbing perfectionism?