<p>This is from a partial freak out before receiving my SAT score Thursday. I got 2170 before, and I have a feeling that the score went down. Luckily Stanford looks at the cumulative scores. But what if the scores went down like crazy?</p>
<p>like 690 CR --> 640??</p>
<p>Ahh!</p>
<p>That's fine. They'll look at your highest scores. They know that in many cases, it does go down. It won't reflect badly on you (the reason could've been anything -- you were having an off day, you didn't get much sleep, etc.).</p>
<p>I took SAT I in oct for first time and im applying EA, i am doing SAT II in nov. Im lucky if i can get 640 on my CR. Im counting on perfect math score to get my overall past 2150.</p>
<p>It's a mistake to think that admissions offices look at SAT I totals - they don't. They look at each piece separately. So a 2100 that is 800 M, 600 CR, and 700 W is looked at differently from one that is 700 M, 700 R, 700 W. It's important to be aware of this.</p>
<p>"It's a mistake to think that admissions offices look at SAT I totals - they don't."</p>
<p>Is that universally true? I was under the impression that some UC's count them and the SAT II's equally in a formula .</p>
<p>Shrinkrap - No, it's not universal. I was thinking of this class of <em>private</em> college - Stanford, Ivies, top liberal arts colleges like swarthmore, pomona, etc. </p>
<p>The UCs have their own, much more quantitative formula, which I am not familiar with, since my daughters both wanted to attend smaller schools, so didn't apply, alas!</p>