<p>Okay, so right now I'm a junior and I originally thought that colleges see all of the SAT / ACT tests you've taken, which means it looks bad if you've had about 5 or more tries. I know most people take the SAT-R about 3 times in their junior / senior year, but I've only taken it once and got a 1970. My counselor just recently told me that you pick what test scores you want colleges to see without letting them know how many times you've taken the test.</p>
<p>So my question is, should I go ahead and take the SAT / ACT as many times as I'd like to get a good combined score? Or do colleges really see EVERYTHING on collegeboard even if I choose to send only 1 or 2 scores?</p>
<p>plz help im so confused!!!</p>
<p>from what i understand you can choose what score to send now so you can take it as many times as you want? i dont think they will see it even if i take it 4 times right</p>
<p>^ They will not see scores you dont send.</p>
<p>So I could take it 4 times and they would see it as only once?</p>
<p>I’m also interested in this topic, mainly because I’m used to hearing that taking the SAT more than a number of times can look detrimental towards your college APP.
However, upon reading about score-choice, I take it that you can take it, say, seven times, and send in only one good score.
Do all colleges allow score choice though?</p>
<p>Most colleges allow score choice. Some dont </p>
<p>However even if you were to score choice, it would be impossible for any of those anti-score choice schools to know that you actually used score choice,</p>
<p>I see nothing wrong with score choice, go ahead and use it.</p>
<p>if you take score-choice,they can see your score that you want to send.</p>
<p>ok… so basically it all depends on the college you’re applying to?</p>
<p>FlyingFeathrz,</p>
<p>If you decide to use the Score Choice option, you can choose your best scores from one particular date, but you cannot mix and match results from different dates. Most kids do not score their highest scores on all three sections on the same date, so your total SAT score could end up being lower than if you sent all scores for all the times you took the test. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>your May scores: 720 R, 500 M, and 500 W (1720 combined);
your June scores: 500 R, 710 M, 500 W (1710 combined);
your October scores: 500 R, 500 M, 700 W (1700 combined) </p>
<p>If you decided on Score Choice, you would choose to send your May score because that was your highest score for one sitting (1720). But if you sent scores from all three dates, your combined score would be 2130 (because most colleges will use the highest score from each section). I know that you will probably not have such a large score disparity as in the example above, but you may want to see all of your scores (if you take the SAT more than once) before you decide if Score Choice is for you. </p>
<p>Also, not all schools accept Score Choice. Go to the College Board web site for a list of schools and their score reporting policies. Not all colleges are on that list, so you may have to contact the particular schools that youre interested in.</p>