<p>Lol, me and Baelor got into a heated debate. Thats pretty much why. Hopefully it does pay off for you and you get in.</p>
<p>ninjaniah, you made the right decision. At the end of the day, elite colleges admit students based on the human impulses of the admissions officers. I know that places like Harvard are careful to explain that multiple sittings are not held against the test-taker, but, seriously, put yourself in the shoes of an adcom, and picture two hypothetical applicants whose overall "wow" factor in all aspects other than SAT score are identical. One cured cancer, and one solved our economic woes. One had a single-sitting, no prep, junior year SAT score of 2330, and one had two sittings, prep for the second but not the first, with a superscore of 2380. Is one really preferable to the other? If you don't gain admission, it won't be because you didn't take the exam a second time.</p>
<p>Completely Agree.</p>
<p>waitn184
Could you clarify a bit on this new policy? is there a source i could read? This might actually be very helpful for me</p>
<p>bill, the most recent post in this thread, before yours, is five years old. College Board has had a score choice option for years, and it will be described in detail on its website and printed materials. Some colleges accept pick-and-choose scores, but others (including a meaningful number of highly selective colleges, but not all of them) require that you send them all of your scores anyway, notwithstanding the College Board’s willingness to report only selected scores. You have to pay attention on a college-by-college basis. </p>
<p>And please don’t revive ancient threads like this. They don’t actually live again; they just turn into zombies.</p>
<p>whoops, my bad. I didnt notice the age. I thought it was a policy that let you chose individual sections, not just tests. Didnt know it was just score choice. Sorry!</p>